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Author Kassirer, Jerome P., 1932-

Title On the take : how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health / Jerome P. Kassirer
Published Oxford : New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages)
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?
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-239) and index
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Subject Physicians -- Professional ethics -- United States
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States
Medical ethics -- United States
Conflict of interests.
Gifts.
Practice Management, Medical -- ethics
Conflict of Interest
Physician Incentive Plans -- ethics
Practice Patterns, Physicians' -- ethics
Physician's Role
Physician-Patient Relations -- ethics
gifts (object genre)
Conflict of interests
Gifts
Medical ethics
Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices
Physicians -- Professional ethics
Farmaceutische industrie.
Artsen.
Ethiek.
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1602565309
9781602565302
9780195176841
0195176847
9780198039297
0198039298
9780199850518
0199850518