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I call on fellow doctors to begin a long road towards ending our co-dependency on drug companies. We need to stop the smooching.
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A second accusation relates to the gifts that Bell-Kenz Pharma apparently gives to the doctors who manage to “sell” through their prescriptions. These include luxury cars and watches and lavish foreign trips. Senator Jinggoy Estrada named doctors who, he implied, received luxury cars with brand names like Maserati, BMW, Audi and Mercedes Benz.
I also did not hear a sober and nuanced discussion of the state of enmeshment of medical doctors with pharmaceutical companies. If you ask me, the profession as a whole stands condemned, the innocent as well as the guilty. This means that we understand why the guilty need to be punished, and what are the levels of guilt and appropriate punishment. It also involves asking why the innocent find it so hard not to be enmeshed.
We must also consider that what is in the law is a minimal ethical floor – not the ceiling. And, if there is one professional who must reach for the ceiling, it is the physician. Hence our ancient and famous Hippocratic oath. And so, on the basis of ideal ethics, I ask Bell-Kenz Pharma doctor incorporators: what were you thinking?
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