Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry

  1. Marvin Goldstein, MD
  1. Poughkeepsie Medical Group
    Poughkeepsie, NY 12603

    Excerpt

    To the Editors: I appreciate the efforts of the American College of Physicians Ethics Committee in developing the position paper (1) on physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. I think, however, that they have missed an area of concern; that is, the professors who sell their names as editorial consultants or as authors of "rehash" articles for the "throwaway" journals, as well as those who make themselves available as the "select" lecturers for specific pharmaceutical companies.

    In point of fact, if the current professors had set a better example for their students in the first place, both in the hospitals and

    This 100-word excerpt has been provided in the absence of an abstract.

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