From Ed Silverman with Pharmalot: “Drug and device makers paid nearly $6.5 billion in payments to doctors and teaching hospitals last year, according to the latest figures released on Thursday from a federal database. And physicians or their family members held $1 billion in ownership or investment interest in those companies.”
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Why is it even legal for drug makers to bribe doctors? Strikes me this should be illegal.