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Volume 357:507-508 August 2, 2007 Number 5
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A National Survey of Physician–Industry Relationships

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To the Editor: Campbell et al. (April 26 issue)1 present disturbing evidence that many physicians accept inappropriate gifts from industry. Physicians should not accept such gifts, because the reciprocity they engender is known to affect prescribing decisions, which may harm patients and increase the cost of care.

The authors should have known, however, that an American Medical Association (AMA) policy has addressed the ethics regarding industry gifts to physicians since 1990,2 more than a decade before the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) code was implemented in 2002. In fact, the PhRMA code was based largely on the AMA's . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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