On the Take : How Medicine's Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health.

We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of aniceberg t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kassirer, Jerome P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cary : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Temas:
Physicians > Professional ethics > United States.
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices > United States.
Medical ethics > United States.
Conflict of interests.
Gifts.
Éthique médicale > États-Unis.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Pratiques déloyales > États-Unis.
Conflits d'intérêts.
Cadeaux.
gifts (object genre)
Conflict of interests
Gifts
Medical ethics
Pharmaceutical industry > Corrupt practices
Physicians > Professional ethics
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:We all know that doctors accept gifts from drug companies, ranging from pens and coffee mugs to free vacations at luxurious resorts. But as the former Editor-in-Chief of The New England Journal of Medicine reveals in this shocking expose, these innocuous-seeming gifts are just the tip of aniceberg that is distorting the practice of medicine and jeopardizing the health of millions of Americans today. In On the Take, Dr. Jerome Kassirer offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar o.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages)
ISBN:9780198039297
0198039298

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