Via SMNews online
"A red circle with a line through it adorns the entrance to a psychiatric practice in Leonardtown, but it doesn’t refer to smoking or parking. Instead, the text inside reads “DRUG REPS” and warns medical salesmen not to darken the door.
Dr. Carol A. Paris, who has practiced there since 1999, didn’t always have this attitude, she said. For about four months in 2003, she was paid by a major pharmaceutical company — she won’t say which one — occasionally to talk to general practitioners about depression, which they might, because of a dearth of psychiatrists in Southern Maryland, be called upon to treat in their patients.
She was paid $650 per lunch meeting, which took about two hours each, she said."
"A red circle with a line through it adorns the entrance to a psychiatric practice in Leonardtown, but it doesn’t refer to smoking or parking. Instead, the text inside reads “DRUG REPS” and warns medical salesmen not to darken the door.
Dr. Carol A. Paris, who has practiced there since 1999, didn’t always have this attitude, she said. For about four months in 2003, she was paid by a major pharmaceutical company — she won’t say which one — occasionally to talk to general practitioners about depression, which they might, because of a dearth of psychiatrists in Southern Maryland, be called upon to treat in their patients.
She was paid $650 per lunch meeting, which took about two hours each, she said."
Pharmed Out printable NO DRUG REPS certificate for doctors, click here, pdf.
Hat tip Fear and Loathing in Bioethics blog
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1 comments:
Good for them! It's about damn time that doctors realize that they need to be more than med pushers for Big Pharma.
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