Personal Injury Law

Shedding Light on Doctors? Conflict of Interest

By Edward Bills

According to an article in the Washington Post, determining doctors? ties with pharmaceutical companies, and any related conflict of interest, is often a hard task for patients to accomplish. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act, introduced by Senators Chuck Grassley and Herb Kohl, seeks to relieve some of that burden by requiring that all payments of more than $100 made by a drug or medical device company to a doctor be reported. Some doctors are quick to point out that doctor/industry partnership is often needed to help develop beneficial new drugs.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 20, 2009 (boomark / email).