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Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O... by sisk on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @01:07AM (#10929108)
Precisely.

Anecdotal, I know, however I have a family member that shows up on the site. His number is low—less than a couple of hundred dollars—but I asked him about it when I first heard of the site from Last Week Tonight. His response was that they were medical device manufacturers taking his team out for meals to discuss devices they were either already using regularly or were in the process of trialing. I can't imagine anyone can find fault in such a thing.

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Re:Pharma Paid Physicians $6.5B in 2014 – Looking into the O... by refurb on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:53AM (#10930713)
I think the problem is that the current system lands somewhere in the "gray zone". The money doesn't appear to have an influencing effect, but we also don't know at what level it would start. I think a lot of people think it's uncomfortably close to "coercive".
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