What is the ruling on gifts given to doctors by pharmaceutical companies?
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Question : This questioner says: I work as a doctor, and gifts come to us from pharmaceutical companies as advertising for their products. Is this a bribe and embezzlement, or what is it?
Answer : As for the company's intention, its intention is that it is a bribe. Because it wants the one to whom it is given to prescribe the medicines it supplies to the officials so that they buy from it. So, as far as the company is concerned, it is undoubtedly a bribe. As for the doctor, the doctor does not take it on the condition that he expects to present this company's products to the officials in his care. However, my advice to him is not to accept these gifts, because when a person is given something, the general rule is that his heart inclines toward it, and this gift will inevitably affect him. So returning them is better and more appropriate.
Answer : As for the company's intention, its intention is that it is a bribe. Because it wants the one to whom it is given to prescribe the medicines it supplies to the officials so that they buy from it. So, as far as the company is concerned, it is undoubtedly a bribe. As for the doctor, the doctor does not take it on the condition that he expects to present this company's products to the officials in his care. However, my advice to him is not to accept these gifts, because when a person is given something, the general rule is that his heart inclines toward it, and this gift will inevitably affect him. So returning them is better and more appropriate.
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