Is Your Physician Influenced By Drugmakers? Panel Indicates, Yes
MSNBC today ran an aticle that looks at pharmaceutical companies’ gifts and how they influence physicians.
The panel — which includes officials from several medical schools and members of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession — urged the nation’s 400 teaching hospitals to impose stringent measures, including a ban on accepting gifts, meals and drug samples and tight restrictions on outside income.
,blockquote>In an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the group said that voluntary efforts to limit corporate inducements have failed, resulting in the overprescribing of some medications and the withholding of negative discoveries about others. [Is Your Physician Influenced By Drugmakers? Panel Indicates, Yes]
