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Medicals giveaways to be banned at medical schools


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What’s all the hubbub about anyway? Well, big dollars = big influence:

Drug companies spend billions wooing doctors — more than they spend on research or consumer advertising. Medical schools, packed with prominent professors and impressionable trainees, are particularly attractive marketing targets.

So companies have for decades provided faculty and students free food and gifts, offered lucrative consulting arrangements to top-notch teachers and even ghost-wrote research papers for busy professors.
CarolynGillis

2 responses // Medicals giveaways to be banned at medical schools

  • I guess i can see where they are coming from...but business is still business (as much as I disagree with it)...and marketing is still marketing...if every company had enough money to market their products as well as the drug companies do...I think they would...
    JMTJ
  • Finally, a sound resolution! Of course marketing is a business, but it shouldn't be when we are speaking of people's lives who are dependent on certain medications.
    Ch1klet

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