A new survey suggests that despite widespread and often-voiced concerns about conflicts of interest, most doctors still think gifts from the pharmaceutical industry are acceptable.
While regulators, ethicists and politicians have waged an ever more aggressive war on such gifts, the link between doctors and big pharma has proven surprisingly durable.
Often missing from discussions about the potential for this link to unduly influence medicine is any real understanding of how most doctors actually feel about their free pharma-company pens, lunches, holidays, and the like.... Read More - http://www.msrc.co.uk/index.cfm/fuseact ... ageid/2479