This item on Ethical Corporation is interesting, if not surprising: When comparing surveys on pharma executive ethics, 65 percent of the senior execs surveyed believed they and their colleagues "adhere to ethical business practices"--and this...
I've never been to the American College of Cardiology annual meeting, but I cracked up when I saw it described like this in an editorial in The Motley Fool on the Stent wars between Johnson and Johnson and Boston Scientific...
Physician blogger DB makes some good points in this post about pay for performance--namely, that it can hurt overall patient health by discouraging docs from taking on the sickest patients. Instead, he proposes that ...
According to this article on Bend.com, "Representative Carolyn Tomei (D-Milwaukie) has introduced a bill that would force big drug companies to notify the state of the gifts and payments they make to healthcare providers." ...
This post courtesy of Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Faculty of One: How to Teach a Future Doctor While Still Tending Your PatientsOffice-based physicians now play an increasingly important role in medical education.By Myrle Croasdale, AMNews staff March 14...