Amgen being sued for accessing private medical data

Unfortunately it hardly comes as a surprise when I hear the charges of Amgen seeking confidential patient records. What always disturbs me with these Big Pharma stories is that doctors - the people we are supposed to trust - are always actively involved. The medical doctors of America ought to spend a bit more time focusing on patient-doctor breach of faith stories instead of complaining about lawsuits and blocking health care reform. Stories like this latest Amgen lawsuit are only possible because doctors allow the pharmaceutical companies to access their client information.

Shouldn't patients have rights and shouldn't doctors be held accountable? Only a couple of years ago there were successful lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies who had sales reps participate in doctor-patient consultations and now this. As bad as the pharmaceutical companies are, doctors are no better. What ever happened to ethics?