Healthy Skepticism Library item: 19167
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Publication type: Journal Article
Stell LK.
Drug reps off campus! Promoting professional purity by suppressing commercial speech.
J Law Med Ethics 2009; 37:(3):431-43,
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-720X.2009.00404.x/abstract
Abstract:
In the name of restoring professionalism, an influential group of physician-educators have urged academic medical centers to take the lead in purging the house of medicine of the conflicts of interest created by industry’s marketing. I argue that this revivalist movement is misguided, uses “conflict of interest” as an epithet, creates counter-productive incentives, and fails the duty to prepare physicians for ethical engagement with their commercial partners in patient care.
Keywords:
* Conflict of Interest/legislation & jurisprudence*
* Drug Industry/ethics*
* Drug Industry/legislation & jurisprudence
* Drug and Narcotic Control*
* Humans
* Interinstitutional Relations*
* Marketing/ethics*
* Marketing/legislation & jurisprudence
* Schools, Medical/ethics*
* Schools, Medical/legislation & jurisprudence
* United States
