Healthy Skepticism Library item: 5904

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Publication type: Journal Article

Fassett WE.
Professional organizations and healthcare industry support: ethical conflict. Commentary
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 1994; 3:253-255

Abstract:

Professionals are ethically impelled to refuse gifts that are little more than bribes to divert their loyalty from their patients to industry sponsors. They must also equip themselves with adequate means to actually discern the true value of industry products for their patients. If they continue to accept industry support for professional activities, then they must accept the responsibility to spend that support wisely, and in their patients actual interests.