Education or promotion?: Industry-sponsored continuing medical education (CME) as a center for the core/commercial speech debate

摘要

It is after all, only within a particular information context that a drug really exists. Without all of the information on the indications, dosage, and proper use contained in the labeling, coupled with the information and knowledge physicians possess about the use of drugs from their training and experience, a drug is not, in any practical sense, a drug. It is just a useless and probably dangerous chemical. But with the right information, a drug can be a therapeutic tool of enormous and often lifesaving value to patients.