Another story in the WSJ today about a "study" about conficts in medicine cooked up by people who have conflicts themselves, at least in the way they define conflicts. Blumenthal and Rothman's IMAP gets money from the liberal Soros whose drug companies aggressively marketed testosterone products off-label and works with Community Catalyst, which rakes in money suing drug companies through its Prescription Drug Access Litigation Project.
At least the story gets in one good quote from Tom Stossel who said it best ""If a physician can be influenced into prescribing certain drugs just because he had pizza with a pharmaceutical guy, then it's the fault of his training and not the drug company." Or his or herself.
In general, if I had a choice of doctors being "influenced" by pizza deliveries from drug reps or trial attorney funded front groups...guess which one I would choose?
Make that a pie with extra cheese.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/17/1742
At least the story gets in one good quote from Tom Stossel who said it best ""If a physician can be influenced into prescribing certain drugs just because he had pizza with a pharmaceutical guy, then it's the fault of his training and not the drug company." Or his or herself.
In general, if I had a choice of doctors being "influenced" by pizza deliveries from drug reps or trial attorney funded front groups...guess which one I would choose?
Make that a pie with extra cheese.
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/356/17/1742
