Healthy Skepticism Library item: 6774

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Publication type: Journal Article

Tenery RM Jr.
Personal use of drug samples by physicians and office staff.
JAMA 1997 Nov 19; 278:(19):1568

Abstract:

The Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs of the American Medical Association addresses some of [Westfall’s] concerns in opinions found in the 1996-1997 Code of Ethics: 8.19 Treatment of Immediate Family Members, and 8.061 Gifts to Physicians From Industry. The authors were consulting the 1994 rather than the 1996-1997 edition of the code. Use of prescription drug samples by staff who have not received prescriptions for them is inappropriate and illegal.

Keywords:
*letter to the editor/United States/ Advertising* Drug Industry* Drug Utilization* Ethics* Humans Interprofessional Relations Medical Staff* Physicians* United States