What does the doctor mean by pushing sugar?

Pushing sugar is a term that doctors often use. It doesn't mean recommending candy, but promoting medical products. Doctors often push sugar to help patients better understand and use some innovative and effective drugs and medical devices. However, pushing sugar may also have some negative effects, such as being used by some unhealthy medical institutions or manufacturers for immoral promotion.

Doctors generally push sugar in two ways: face-to-face sales and online sales. Face-to-face sales promotion is usually carried out by medical representatives or salespeople visiting doctors in hospitals, introducing the efficacy and advantages of related drugs or medical devices to doctors, and providing relevant materials and samples. Online sales through the Internet and mobile phone applications, and product promotion on doctors' personal WeChat, QQ and other chat tools.

Although pushing sugar can help patients treat diseases better, it may also have some negative effects. For example, many doctors have certain moral hazard because of pushing sugar, and phenomena such as "taking kickbacks" and "taking medicine" often follow, which will have a certain impact on their credibility among patients. In addition, there is a risk that some patients will eat or abuse medical products by mistake. Therefore, for doctors and medical enterprises, we should strictly abide by the relevant regulations and recommend regular and legal drugs and medical devices.