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To the Editor: Dr. Brennan's tale of drug companies and public-relations firms that ``buy'' editorials (Sept. 8 issue)¹ struck home with me.

As the editor of American Family Physician, a medical journal that publishes primarily clinical review articles, I periodically receive a query from a public-relations firm shopping around for the publication of a manuscript. Only on questioning does the firm admit that the work has been supported by a drug company. In some cases, I have learned, physicians are offered thousands of dollars to put their names on articles they did not write or reports of research they did . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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