Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3617

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Publication type: Journal Article

Verma S.
“A matter of influence”: graduate medical education and commercial sponsorship
New England Journal of Medicine 1988; 318:52

Abstract:

The author sees nothing wrong in being sponsored by a pharmaceutical company to say in public what he would say in an academic setting. Believing that doctors can be influenced by gifts presupposes a lack of judgement on the part of doctors.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/United States/continuing medical education/corporate funding/gift giving/ relationship between medical profession and industry/ doctors/ attitude toward industry/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: LINKS BETWEEN HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND INDUSTRY/PROMOTION DISGUISED: SUPPORT FOR CME