>>12550052>does most every general practitioners or specialists make deals with big pharmaDepends. It's not that simple ultimately. Many doctors are involved in insurance plans/insurance companies or otherwise work for hospitals/health care organizations that have made deals with a single provider of pharmaceutical products. These doctors are then forced to prescribe the products and only the products of a single pharmaceutical corporation to their patients. But those who work more independently are often contacted by representants of pharmaceutical companies or invited to meetings hosted by pharmaceutical companies where the products are promoted. Such doctors can enter an explicitedly legal or implicite contract with a pharmaceutical company where the doctors actually get paid to promote or prescribe some product to their patients. And more often than not, the same contracts stipulate that the doctors have to sell a certain amount of products before they can get any cash in return, which ultimately means that they have to fulfill a quota. Some contracts however only stipulate that a doctor will prescribe a product and gets a fixed share of the additional income generated by the promotion of the product.
>Are doctors actuslly trustworthy regarding the medicinesNo, from my experience doctors are completely ignorant when it comes to pharmaceutical sciences. Although that might have changed in recent years, I'm not sure actually, doctors do not go beyond the basics of biochemistry and pharmaceutical sciences in their studies. Additionally, pharmaceutical companies are extremely secretive when it comes to their products and how they are producted (because trade marks etc.) and their studies are not accessible. The same studies that suffice to prove the safety or usefulness of a pharmaceutical drug.
