Big Pharma's used handouts to physicians are sold on eBay.
Sic transit gloria Mundi.
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Now that guidelines for all doctors on accepting "gifts" are going to be in place, what other such ephemera will we see? Link
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Monday, April 28, 2008
New York Times: Doctors should be banned from taking gifts from Pharma
April 28, 2008
Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
By GARDINER HARRIS
Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded.
The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the group, the Association of American Medical Colleges, to create a model policy governing interactions between the schools and industry. While schools can ignore the association’s advice, most follow its recommendations.
Rob Restuccia, executive director of the Prescription Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to eliminating conflicts of interest in medicine, said the report would transform medical education.
“Most medical schools do not have strong conflict-of-interest policies, and this report will change that,” Mr. Restuccia said.
The rules would apply only to medical schools, but they could have enormous influence across medicine, said Dr. David Rothman, president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University.
“We’re hoping the example set by academic medical colleges will be contagious,” Dr. Rothman said.
Drug companies spend billions wooing doctors — more than they spend on research or consumer advertising. Medical schools, packed with prominent professors and impressionable trainees, are particularly attractive marketing targets.
So companies have for decades provided faculty and students free food and gifts, offered lucrative consulting arrangements to top-notch teachers and even ghost-wrote research papers for busy professors.
Read the article here
Group Urges Ban on Medical Giveaways
By GARDINER HARRIS
Drug and medical device companies should be banned from offering free food, gifts, travel and ghost-writing services to doctors, staff members and students in all 129 of the nation’s medical colleges, an influential college association has concluded.
The proposed ban is the result of a two-year effort by the group, the Association of American Medical Colleges, to create a model policy governing interactions between the schools and industry. While schools can ignore the association’s advice, most follow its recommendations.
Rob Restuccia, executive director of the Prescription Project, a nonprofit group dedicated to eliminating conflicts of interest in medicine, said the report would transform medical education.
“Most medical schools do not have strong conflict-of-interest policies, and this report will change that,” Mr. Restuccia said.
The rules would apply only to medical schools, but they could have enormous influence across medicine, said Dr. David Rothman, president of the Institute on Medicine as a Profession at Columbia University.
“We’re hoping the example set by academic medical colleges will be contagious,” Dr. Rothman said.
Drug companies spend billions wooing doctors — more than they spend on research or consumer advertising. Medical schools, packed with prominent professors and impressionable trainees, are particularly attractive marketing targets.
So companies have for decades provided faculty and students free food and gifts, offered lucrative consulting arrangements to top-notch teachers and even ghost-wrote research papers for busy professors.
Read the article here
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Senator Grassley (IA) reports on Pharma payments to doctors
Floor Statement of U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
Pharma Payments to Doctors
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Mr. President, for the last few years, I have been looking at how drug companies may improperly influence medical care.
It's no secret that drug and device companies have substantial financial relationships with physicians.
In addition to multimillion dollar royalty payments and lucrative consulting contracts, I have found that drug and device companies often provide perks to doctors, such as expensive trips, lavish speaking fees, and other benefits.
These relationships can motivate doctors to modify their treatment practices and those practices may not be in the best interest of patients.
Because these financial relationships are so common, Senator Kohl and I introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act last year. Now this bill is not aimed at stopping money from flowing to doctors, but it will throw a little sunshine on the issue and hopefully curb bad
behavior.
Pdf here
Pharma Payments to Doctors
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Mr. President, for the last few years, I have been looking at how drug companies may improperly influence medical care.
It's no secret that drug and device companies have substantial financial relationships with physicians.
In addition to multimillion dollar royalty payments and lucrative consulting contracts, I have found that drug and device companies often provide perks to doctors, such as expensive trips, lavish speaking fees, and other benefits.
These relationships can motivate doctors to modify their treatment practices and those practices may not be in the best interest of patients.
Because these financial relationships are so common, Senator Kohl and I introduced the Physician Payments Sunshine Act last year. Now this bill is not aimed at stopping money from flowing to doctors, but it will throw a little sunshine on the issue and hopefully curb bad
behavior.
Pdf here
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