Should doctors be paid to promote pharmaceutical drugs?
Clip: 12/17/2013 | 9m 35s
Should doctors be paid by pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs?
GlaxoSmithKline has announced it will no longer pay doctors to promote its drugs, nor reward sales representatives based on how many prescriptions doctors write. Judy Woodruff gets views on the business and ethical issues at play from Dr. Jerry Avorn and Dr. Thomas Stossel, both of Harvard Medical School.
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Should doctors be paid to promote pharmaceutical drugs?
Clip: 12/17/2013 | 9m 35s
GlaxoSmithKline has announced it will no longer pay doctors to promote its drugs, nor reward sales representatives based on how many prescriptions doctors write. Judy Woodruff gets views on the business and ethical issues at play from Dr. Jerry Avorn and Dr. Thomas Stossel, both of Harvard Medical School.
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