E-drug: Reply from Dr Attaran to Dr Srinivas (cont'd)
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Having read with interest the discussion on this topic in the forum, I
find it difficult to hold my comments back. While on the one hand I
feel that practically everyone has an important point to make, I too
speak with a personal experience of having interviewed hundreds of
doctor in urban India on various aspects of medical practice in
connection with a few research projects. It is a fact that promotional
practices do influence the prescribing and more so when you may not
have a comfortable access to the current science. This is more likely
to happen in a developing country as compared to an advanced one
and doctors may not really be dupes anywhere. All the same, it is,
indeed, important that at least the future doctors must be trained to
understand the effect of promotional practices right during their
undergraduate training level.
Dr Ram K Dixit, MD
Professor and Head
Department of Pharmacology
B J Medical College
Ahmedabad 380 016
INDIA
e-mail: ramdixit@yahoo.com
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