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We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of an iceberg thatā¦
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Kassirer, also like Angell a highly respected physician and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, first opened my eyes to how extensively drug companies use their vast wealth to turn physicians into promoters and middlemen.
I knew about the small and not-so-small gifts, speaking fees, travel junkets, and the like to individual doctors and ākey opinion leadersā of the profession, but not about the āinstitutional conflicts of interestā gladly entered into by specialty medical societies heavily dependent on drug money for their events and activities such as scientific meetings, journal publishing, clinical practice recommendations, and, not leastā¦
From Peter's list on the entanglement of medicine, politics, and pharmaceuticals.
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