MSM
The Tenth Mens Sana
Monograph
The Academia - Industry
Symposium 2005-2006
Where is Medicine Heading?
Pointers and Directions from Recent Law Suits Against Industry:
Medicine As A Corporate
Enterprise, Patient Welfare Centered Profession, Or Patient Welfare Centered
Professional Enterprise?
Contents
Musings : Junkets and Trinkets
Ajai Singh 13
Editorial : Emphasising
Prevention, Developing Therapies Complementing Approaches 15
THE TENTH MONOGRAPH
19-50
Abstract 19
Introduction 20
The Problem 21
Spanner in the Works 22
Ominous portents: law suits
against industry 23
Financial Condition of
Pharma Majors on the Decline 25
The Recent Ranbaxy Showing
26
Why price deflation, increased
R and D spending and litigation costs? 27
Set Rethinking Process
into Motion 28
Is The Spate of Lawsuits
Going to Increase? 29
What Do These Lawsuits
Indicate? 30
Indian Pharma Industry
31
Remedy, Short term and
Long 32
A. Short Term Measures
32
B. Long Term Measures 33
1. Medicine as a Corporate
Enterprise 34
2. Medicine as a Patient
Welfare Centered Profession 37
The Choice 40
Resolution: Medicine as
a Patient Welfare Centered Professional Enterprise 41
Summing up : Medicine as
a Patient Welfare Centered Professional Enterprise 46
Decide which side to be
on 47
Concluding Remarks 48
References 50
Questions that this
monograph raises 51
Call for poems in MSM
Poems Section on Medicine, Health and Human Behaviour 52
MSM Poems
Silences 53
Parliament Ajai Singh 53
Readers Respond N.
N. Wig 54
Obituary
Dr. A. Venkoba Rao 55
Dr. S. G. Mudgal 56
Subscription 58
Back Issues 59
Advertisement Rates 60
Index 61
