A sneaky use of “data” and non-validated studies are making their way into hospital ads. Are academic physicians working in these big-name hospital just a bunch of hypocrites?
To me it’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black as physician leaders at these and other academic medical centers talk about “professionalism” and rail against pharmaceutical industry promotion while tolerating such ethical breaches by their own institutions.
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