Episode 222 - Profiting from patients - How pharmaceutical bribes are impact citizens' healthcare

Pakistonomy

In this episode, Uzair talks to Mishal S. Khan about the ways in which doctors are incentivized to over-prescribe medications to patients in Pakistan. This is something many of us have known about anecdotally, but now we have research to tell us about how widespread this problem could be. Mishal S. Khan is a Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the UK and Visiting Faculty at Aga Khan University, Pakistan. Guest’s profile link - https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/khan.mishal-s More details about the study - https://www.patientsnotprofits.org Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Key findings 6:50 Does ethics training help? 11:30 Local v. international companies 14:40 Methodology 18:10 Pressure by patients 21:00 Policy recommendations 24:50 What can individuals do? 28:39 Reading recommendations Reading recommendations: - Why we sleep by Matthew Walker - Poems by Faiz