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*Drugsters In Academia: How Big Pharma 'Educates' American Doctors

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The pharmaceutical industry has wormed its way into the hearts and minds

of the medical professions in any number of ways---wining and dining

doctors, sending them off to vacation in splendid spas, and even buying

their names to put on industry-written articles promoting different

drugs. One little known facet of this drugster-doctor relationship is

Big Pharma's role in continuing medical education (CME) programs, which

are important in keeping medical professionals informed and up to date

on the fast developing profession. Of the $2 billion-odd spent on these

programs every year, nearly half comes from the drug business, which

not-so-subtly uses the education programs to push new drugs.

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Ridgeway, Truthout

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