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‘[T]he CME-industry relationship is so firmly cemented that when Fugh-Berman gave a CME lecture to a hospital’s assembled doctors on Big Pharma’s influence, one incredulous cardiologist asked, “How did you get in here?” “We responded, quite honestly, that the department coordinator thought we were drug reps,” Fugh-Berman recalls. “And we paid for lunch.”‘

A Nashville paper writes a long, thoughtful piece on the corruption of American medical education and practice.

The reporter interviewed – or tried to interview – some highly paid pharma shills. One of them, a professor at Meharry, said

he would need to check with the school’s communications department before commenting, but did not respond by press time.

Poor man can’t open his mouth without permission — either from his university, or from Eli Lilly.

Margaret Soltan, December 2, 2010 1:27PM
Posted in: conflict of interest

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