What We’ve Learned From Four Years of Diving Into Dollars for Docs
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Payments from pharmaceutical companies touch hundreds of thousands of doctors. The 17 companies we’ve tracked spent $1.4 billion in 2013 alone. Here are our top five takeaways from following all that money.
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Geez, almost every medical professional is on the take:
Surveys conducted in 2004 and again in 2009Â showed that more than three-quarters of doctors had at least one type of financial relationship with a drug or medical device company. The figure dropped from about 94 percent in 2004 to 84 percent in 2009, said the lead author, Eric Campbell, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and director of research at the Mongan Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital.
I guess it's a good thing that number is down?
Still, 84%. Sheesh!
1:26 PM Sep 29 2014