Drug Companies

Prescription for Change: Over-the-Counter Sales of Medical Records

By Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | May 1, 2007 | Comments Off on Prescription for Change: Over-the-Counter Sales of Medical Records

In all likelihood, every time you fill a prescription, information about you is sold to a company that then resells that information to pharmaceutical companies for promotional purposes. Your name is removed from your medication history, which is supposed to make it all better. Industry may know all your intimate health details, but as long as they know you as number 0178 rather than by your name, it’s all legal.

Rx for Change: Waiting Room Activism

By Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD | Dec 12, 2005 | Comments Off on Rx for Change: Waiting Room Activism

“Even the scale I was weighed on had the name of a drug on it – a weight loss drug,” said my friend, after visiting her doctor. If it’s any consolation, the ad wasn’t directed at her.