Concern Over Drug Industry Involvement at India’s ‘Health Camps’

Medical Express - Quotes Glyn Elwyn, professor of community and family medicine and of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, about how pharmaceutical sales representatives are screening people at free "health camps" for poor people in India, in return for prescriptions for their products. "This kind of behavior can actually lead to harm to patients—overdiagnosis, misclassification [of healthy people as sick], iatrogenic harm of drugs," says Elwyn.