Can a sandwich from a drug maker sway physician prescribing down under?
A new study is reviving a debate in Australia over financial ties between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry, underscoring concerns that such relationships unduly influence medical practice. The study did not actually attempt to correlate prescribing habits with industry payments, but the extent to which companies spent money on food for a large number of doctors is putting drug makers on the defensive.
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