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A Matter Of Influence

Howard Brody

I was sitting in a room off the hospital cafeteria with a group of our family practice residents, waiting for teaching rounds to begin. I asked them about the pledge taken by some doctors to "just say no" to drug reps by not accepting any gifts from them. Did the residents think that any of their peers would sign such a pledge? "Maybe half would," said one. "That’s way too optimistic," replied another. A third resident explained that she would refuse to sign the pledge not because of a desire to get freebies, but out of a conviction that she . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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