Healthy Skepticism Library item: 4067

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Publication type: Journal Article

Hume AL.
Doctors, drug companies, and gifts
JAMA 1990; 263:2177-2178

Abstract:

Instead of reducing questions about the relationship between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry to a cold business transactions we should instead try caring more.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/United States/gift giving/ relationship between medical profession and industry/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY