Currently is your discovery being used by patients told by the doctor to come to you, or do you advertise you discovery

Question: Currently is your discovery being used by patients told by the doctor to come to you, or do you advertise you discovery for yourself?
- Keywords:
  discovery,
  doctor,
  How Science Works,
  patient
Asked by oliviaduggan to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 16 Mar 2012.
- Lena Ciric answered on 16 Mar 2012:
  
  I’m not sure if we all work in universities.
  
  I know that if I made a discovery, I would have to tell doctors and policy makers about it. Or if it was a product, then it would have to be made and sold to doctors – I’d have nothing to do with that process. Well, I might earn some money out of it hopefully. 🙂
- Sean Murphy answered on 16 Mar 2012:
  
  We work closely with doctors to develop our treatments so they will provide the bet benefit to the patients. When we make a new discovery we publish the results in a journal, which is reviewed and read by many other scientists. This is an important part of scientific research, and it exists so that all new discoveries can be double checked by other scientists.

Question: Currently is your discovery being used by patients told by the doctor to come to you, or do you advertise you discovery for yourself?