For sale – your doctor’s opinion

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Is it a fairy tale to believe that our doctors always acted in our best interest? Unfortunately, it may be. Paul Thacker recently published an opinion piece in The BMJ Opinion highlighting the rampant failure of doctors disclosing their numerous financial conflicts of interest. The most public recent example was the NYT article on Dr. Jose Baselga, the prominent cancer researcher from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He failed to disclose over $3 million in funding from pharmaceutical and health care companies. NYT: Top cancer researcher fails to disclose corporate financial ties in major research journals On the surface this sounds bad, but is it really an issue? The doctors in question almost always respond by saying their interest is helping medicine progress, and the money does not alter how they practice. I, and the majority of the population, beg to differ. A study in JAMA showed that industry sponsored meals led to an increase in doctors prescribing the...
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