Healthy Skepticism Library item: 11473
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Publication type: Journal Article
Moynihan R.
How to disentangle doctors and drug companies
Open Medicine 2007 Sep 18; 1:(3):epub
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/view/145/68
Abstract:
The folks at the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche really know how to organize a good meal. Not long ago they treated more than 200 lucky cancer specialists to a night out at one of Australia’s top restaurants, inside the world-famous Sydney Opera House.
The harbourside restaurant boasts a “degustation†menu of sterling caviar, kingfish sashimi and the best of French and Australian wines. The meal was priced at more than A$200 a head, and the whole night cost Roche over A$65,000.1 I know that for fact because a disgruntled diner leaked me a copy of the bill. “The gluttony of the whole thing was mind-blowing,†she told me…
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