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Voluntary PhRMA Guidelines Will Ban Trinkets


 

Time will tell whether the guidelines will result in any real changes, said Dr. Howard Brody, director of the Institute for the Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. All physicians should start thinking about how to get educated about new treatments without meeting with sales representatives, foregoing samples, and saying no to free lunches provided by pharmaceutical companies, he said.

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