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Thursday, June 13, 2002I am an oncologist and a big target for the industry. After all it is common for one of my patients to receive $2-3000 treatments every three weeks. We get offers of "educational" meetings commonly. The company brings in some (often genuine) prominent speaker pays them a nice honorarium, and they give a talk at one of the nicer restaurants in town. Would this seem ok to my patients? The industry also invites us to become members of their "speakers bureau." This usually entails a weekend somewhere nice and an honorarium. They pay for the flight, room, and meals, and they give you a check! One of the local docs presented some slides that he got at one of these meetings at one of our tumor boards. I respect this person, but I know that he got the slides at one of these events. The honorarium was $500. Are these things ok? What would our patients think? Many prominent academicians try to minimize the difference between working in science and us private practice moneygrubbers by traveling around for the drug companies. Does this have impacts on the quality of their studies? What would our patients think? Yeh, what would they think? Doesn't make us look too good, does it? posted by Sydney on 6/13/2002 01:17:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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