http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/12/29/marcia-angell-call-it-corruption/ The Ultimate Massachusetts Health Care Insider Information Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/12/29/marcia-angell-call-it-corruption/#comment-3739 Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:54:32 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=2162#comment-3739 [...] set up when drug companies pay off doctors to prescribe drugs. (Background info here, here, here, and [...]

]]> http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/12/29/marcia-angell-call-it-corruption/#comment-2139 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:48 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=2162#comment-2139 [...] editor Marcia Angell calls the relationship between medicine and drug companies by a single word — corruption. A study media can claim debunks the idea that ads cause people to ask for drugs by name, but which [...]

]]> http://blog.hcfama.org/2008/12/29/marcia-angell-call-it-corruption/#comment-2138 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:03:40 +0000 http://blog.hcfama.org/?p=2162#comment-2138 Big Pharma’s gifts to doctors are quite troubling. Doctors are mostly very, very good people. However, money can bias the judgment of even the most esteemed doctors, e.g., in one case, a man who was the head of his state’s psychiatric association. For an example of a patient whose death may be associated with this, see http://www.PatientSafetyBlog.com/2008/12/if-david-could-speak-from-his-grave.html

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