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Free Meals and Other Perks From Big Pharma Really Do Sway Doctors, Review Finds

A new systematic review, published by Cochrane, has found a direct “dose-response” relationship between the number prescriptions for certain drugs and the amount of free meals given to doctors.

Tarun Mottlia

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Free Meals and Other Perks From Big Pharma Really Do Sway Doctors, Review Finds
Image: The study’s authors noted that it has become common for pharmaceutical companies to offer free meals and comped trips to events to persuade doctors on the merits of their drugs. Credit: acamnet via Flickr, CC 2.0 license

Hubris threatens doctors in the same ways it does many of society’s other technically daunting, well-paid professions: It’s a hard club to get into, and if you’re in there, well, you must be pretty smart. (This latent tendency likely played a role in Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton going from completing an MD at Harvard Medical School at age 27 to preaching climate change denial by the end of his life.)

Now a stern warning is coming down from a…

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