Doctors, AGA, and industry: steps toward improving the relationship. journal of the American Gastroenterological Association

摘要

Scholarly articles and editorials in the medical literature and at times daily articles, editorials, and opinions in the lay press document the Intricacies and inappropriate relationships between doctors and corporate sponsors. Some articles have claimed that medicine, and academic medicine in particular, has sold itself to corporate sponsors and that the academic-industrial wall has been breached. The most recent debacle surrounds the conflicts when physicians, wittingly or unwittingly, inform investors about the perceived efficacy of novel therapies under investigation.