Conflict of Interests

In this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre, there is a conflict of interests between the drug manufacturers and the market for the drugs. The article suggests that the manufacturers know everything about their drugs, good and bad, but the doctors and patients do not. This is obviously a conflict of interests because the manufacturers want money no matter what they have to do, and the patients want a drug that works exactly as advertised. The problem here is that the drug manufacturers test their own drugs, so they can say whatever they want about their drugs to make them look more appealing. However, this causes certain important things to be withheld from the patients (such as bad side effects), or just causes a generally misleading advertisement of the drug.