Doctors and Drug Companies

Source: AARP.org | October 19, 2004

We’ve all seen the free coffee mugs and pens at our doctor’s office promoting big name drugs—but as medical expert Dr. Jerome Kassirer reveals in On The Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health, the payoffs that many physicians take from wealthy pharmaceutical companies can be much bigger than that. Dr. Kassirer talks with host Mike Cuthbert about the financial connection between some companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them—and the medical system that allows it.

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