No more free lunches!!!!!!!!! British Medical Journal

Free pens and pizza lunches. Sponsored conferences and compromised medical
education. Courtesy golf and unaffordable holidays. Thought leaders and
ghost writers. These are the trappings of doctors and drug companies being
entwined in an embrace of avarice and excess, an embrace that "distorts
medical information and patient care." An article in this theme issue of
the BMJ identifies 16 ways in which doctors are entangled with the drug
industry.

http://tinyurl.com/qjrur

The power of drug companies to buy influence over every key group in health
care—doctors, charities, patient groups, journalists, politicians—has
clearly shocked a UK parliamentary committee (p 855). It should shock us
all.

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