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The Drug Company Rehabilitation Program For Wayward Doctors
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At least the drug companies have not turned to illegal aliens to conduct their clinical trials - as far as we know.
Drug companies pay sanctioned doctors
The following editorial appeared in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on Tuesday, June 5:You'd like to believe that the drugs prescribed to you and your loved ones are of the highest quality, that they've been tested and retested in clinical trials conducted by an elite corps of physicians with the highest level of competence and integrity, and that federal overseers are vigilant in protecting your best interests.
Unfortunately, that's not necessarily so, according to a New York Times investigation published on Sunday. Focusing on Minnesota, the paper found more than 100 doctors who had been disciplined or criticized by a medical board but who, nonetheless, had been paid by drug companies to conduct clinical trials or to promote certain medicines. At least two of those doctors had been convicted of criminal fraud. Altogether, drugmakers were found to have paid $1.7 million from 1997 to 2005 to 103 doctors who had been cited by the Minnesota Board of Medical Practice.
Source: FortWayne.com
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