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On the take : how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health / Jerome P. Kassirer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kassirer, Jerome P., 1932-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians--Professional ethics--United States.
- Physicians.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Corrupt practices--United States.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Medical ethics--United States.
- Medical ethics.
- Conflict of interests.
- Gifts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On the Take offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians' moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and trusted institutions.
- Contents:
- Free gifts, free meals, free education, special deals
- Money-warped behavior
- Conflicts of interest : financial and otherwise
- Influenced by gifts? Not I!
- Your doctor's tainted information
- Our obliging professional organizations
- Can you trust your doctor?
- Can we trust our researchers?
- How did it happen?
- What can be done?
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-56052-5
- 1-4237-4669-4
- 0-19-803929-8
- 1-60256-530-9
- OCLC:
- 173346906
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