Those of us old-fashioned types think that doctors should be prescribing drugs based on the health needs of their patients. But hey, what do we know? According to the NYT, the pharmaceutical industry thought it was very important that doctors know exactly how much they could profit from prescribing their drugs for different types of patients.
Good reporting, how much more of this corruption do we need before there is discussion of replacing the patent system for financing prescription drug research?
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