Healthy Skepticism Library item: 13487

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Publication type: Journal Article

Spence D.
Bend it like . . . ?
BMJ 2008 Apr 5; 336:(7647):776
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/extract/336/7647/776

Abstract:

…Twisting and turning is a standard manoeuvre in life. So it is with the code of conduct of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI)-a voluntary code without legal censure or enforcement. It is a code unknown to many doctors, who have been bent and battered for years by unfettered hospitality, sham meetings, and all manner of gifts in kind. But drug companies were never allowed to pay doctors directly just to meet, and I never saw money directly changing hands, except for one time…

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