Doctors behaving badly?
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It is in doctors’ and the drug industry’s best interests that their interactions be openly declared. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Pharmaceutical companies lavish meals, five-star travel, cash and gifts on doctors for one reason: to encourage them to prescribe their drugs. The standard retort from the medical profession is that doctors have sufficient clinical objectivity — and personal integrity — not to be so crudely swayed. Perhaps soIt is in doctors’ and the drug industry’s best interests that their interactions be openly declared. There is no such thing as a free lunch. Pharmaceutical companies lavish meals, five-star travel, cash and gifts on doctors for one reason: to encourage them to prescribe their drugs. The standard retort from the medical profession is that doctors have sufficient clinical objectivity — and personal integrity — not to be so crudely swayed. Perhaps so
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2006-01-01Publisher
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Faculty of Medicine and Health, Sydney Health EthicsCitation
Doctors behaving badly?, Medical Journal of Australia, vol.185,(6),2006,pp 299-301Share