Sunday, October 24, 2010

ProPublica database details pharmaceutical payments to Maryland doctors - baltimoresun.com

"The more money you take, the more likely you are to present their drugs in a positive light, and the more likely you are to do research that is favorable to the drugs," said Dr. Carl Elliott, a professor in the University of Minnesota Center for Bioethics and the author of a book on ethics in medicine. "For whatever reason, doctors like to pretend the money has no effect on them."

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1 comment:

SCooley said...

While on the surface this appears to be a sane view, viz. money skews performance, it is also a wholesale indictment of physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Cited without evidence it does no service either to its cause or its author.