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Friday, August 28, 2009

Doctors and their financial ties to Big Pharma and other related industries

You may not be able to trust your mortgage broker, your car salesman or your congressman, but you can trust your doctor. Can't you? Patients might well ask themselves this question when they learn that 94 percent of physicians have "a relationship" with the pharmaceutical, medical device or other related industries, according to a national survey of physicians published two years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is unclear how much those businesses spend on marketing overall, but Integrated Medical Systems, a research firm, estimates that pharmaceutical companies spend more than $20 billion annually marketing directly to doctors.
Read article in the Washington Post (USA)