On the take
Subtitle: how America's complicity with big business can endanger your health
By: Jerome P. Kassirer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Physicians -- Professional ethics -- United States; Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- United States; Medical ethics -- United States; Conflict of interests; Gifts; Practice Management, Medical -- ethics; Conflict of Interest; Physician Incentive Plans -- ethics; Physician's Practice Patterns -- ethics; Physician's Role; Physician-Patient Relations -- ethics
Description: Offers an unsettling look at the pervasive payoffs that physicians take from big drug companies and other medical suppliers, arguing that the billion-dollar onslaught of industry money has deflected many physicians' moral compasses and directly impacted the everyday care we receive from the doctors and institutions we trust most. Underscored by countless chilling untold stories, the book illuminates the financial connections between the wealthy companies that make drugs and the doctors who prescribe them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Free gifts, free meals, free education, special deals; title: Money-warped behavior; title: Conflicts of interest : financial and otherwise; title: Influenced by gifts? Not I!; title: Your doctor's tainted information; title: Our obliging professional organizations; title: Can you trust your doctor?; title: Can we trust our researchers?; title: How did it happen?; title: What can be done?