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Oct 15, 2016 2 Comments

Corporate Sponsorship Influence Is Not About “Weak-Mindedness”

Andrug-company-rx-pharmaceutical-rep-gift-lot-primaxin-_57 attendee at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ conference emailed us the following:

“In her opening talk today, AND’s president [Lucille Beseler] made a comment about corporate sponsorship: “I’m not so weak-minded that I would make a decision based on receiving a pen.”

It’s unfortunate that the well-documented issue of the often-subconscious influence of corporate sponsorship is mocked and dismissed.

Actually, research has pointed out that “while most doctors do not believe gifts influence their decisions about which drugs to prescribe, the gifts actually can make a difference – something patient advocates have voiced concern about in the past.”

One study, published earlier this year in the British Medical Journal, “found that when a drug company spends $13 on a doctor, then they will later see 94 additional days of prescriptions for brand-name anticoagulants and additional 107 days of prescribing brand-name drugs to treat diabetes.”

This, of course, is just one of many examples of what we know about the effects of industry funding based on a growing body of academic literature.

We truly wish the topic of corporate influence was approached by AND with greater awareness, curiosity, and understanding as to how we, as a profession, can recognize it and improve our actions to elevate the registered dietitian credential.

This is not about “weak-mindedness”, it is about larger systemic forces. Pretending they don’t exist will not make them go away.

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  1. doug kalman says

    October 24, 2016 at 6:16 am

    it would be great to compile a list of the leaders of AND and individualize all of their perceived and real known (and unknown?) conflicts of interest. Wasn’t AND embarrassed enough by the kids campaign a year or so back or the fact that at one time AND/ADA helped McDonald’s make kids toys for the Happy Meals?

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  1. On Evidence & Conflicts of Interest | Health: An Interdisciplinary Blog says:
    October 24, 2016 at 9:01 am

    […] of Nutrition and Dietetics (“AND”) recently held its annual meeting.  According to dietician Andy Bellatti (and others), during her opening talk, the President of the AND, Lucille Beseler, […]

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