Thank you for the question.
My comments may not have been clear. I'm not aware of any countries where there are no interactions between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians. I made some statements about.... I was contrasting the pharmaceutical industry here in Canada with other health care industries such as the medical testing industry.
Physicians routinely receive visits from sales reps of pharmaceutical companies and we are—to the last question—constantly being exposed to advertisements by the pharmaceutical industry. But if you contrast that with the medical testing industry, i.e. the companies that do blood tests and lab tests, they don't advertise in medical journals in general. They don't send sales reps to visit individual physicians. I was drawing that distinction in order to illustrate that industries can be profitable and they can contribute to the health care of Canadians without relying on marketing at all.