Healthy Skepticism Library item: 3460

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Publication type: Journal Article

Seddon TD.
Drug promotion.
N Z Med J 1987 May 27; 100:(824):327

Abstract:

The problem is less the bribes that drug companies occasionally offer but rather the medical profession which has become used to a relationship which is unhealthy and has little to offer in the educational sense or in the improvement of patient care.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/New Zealand/gift giving/ relationship between medical profession and industry/doctors/ATTITUDES REGARDING PROMOTION: HEALTH PROFESSIONALS/ETHICAL ISSUES IN PROMOTION: GIFT GIVING Attitude of Health Personnel* Drug Industry*