Have you read this article?

[chaoticzenmom]

This is about the conflicts of interest between top medical schools (Harvard) and drug companies. It's such a shame that education can be so influenced this way...sickening to me.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/bu...%20ties&st=cse

"David Tian, 24, a first-year Harvard Medical student, said: “Before coming here, I had no idea how much influence companies had on medical education. And it’s something that’s purposely meant to be under the table, providing information under the guise of education when that information is also presented for marketing purposes.”

And we should trust our dr's advice....they're the educated ones afterall:

[k9sarchik]

And it gets even better. So at the medical student protest guess who is photographing the students.......a Pfizer employee!

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/bu...1&ref=business

[Marnica]

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22237

Here is another tidbit about something similar and in the same vein as what you are talking about with the med schools - Conflicts of interest between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs.

Take the case of Dr. Joseph L. Biederman, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and chief of pediatric psychopharmacology at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital. Thanks largely to him, children as young as two years old are now being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and treated with a cocktail of powerful drugs, many of which were not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for that purpose and none of which were approved for children below ten years of age.

In June, Senator Grassley revealed that drug companies, including those that make drugs he advocates for childhood bipolar disorder, had paid Biederman $1.6 million in consulting and speaking fees between 2000 and 2007. Two of his colleagues received similar amounts

Makes me sick it does!