Relationships between physicians and Pharma
Why physicians should not accept money from the pharmaceutical industry
Carl Elliott, MD, PhD

If we have learned anything from a decade's worth of litigation, it is that the pharmaceutical industry pays the vast majority of physicians for one reason: to market their drugs. And why would we have ever thought otherwise? Pharma companies are not charitable organizations. They are not in the business of education, or philanthropy, or poverty relief, or even—let's be honest—health care. Their business is to manufacture and sell drugs. Unlike most any other businesses, however, pharmaceutical companies must go through an intermediary in order to sell their product. This places physicians in a position of singular trust. They stand between corporations and the vulnerable, sometimes desperate patients that those corporations call “customers.”
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Relationships between physicians and Pharma
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