Let's Talk The Hypocritical, Not The Hippocratic Oath When It Comes To Med Schools

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jun 05, 2008 at 06:24:40 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

To hear the medical schools talk about it, they are training doctors who will practice medicine with their patients' best health in mind. There are those who say one of the things many doctors learn early in their careers is that pharmaceutical companies can be quite helpful to them. What they'll find is that pharamaceutical company reps are a wondrous source of money, gifts and free drug samples. There is a group that believes many doctors learn these things right when they're learning to become doctors - at medical school. They also believe the first steps in correcting the situation has to be taken at the medical schools. According to the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), it's about time to take stock of just what the medical schools are doing about this situation. Which is what it did and the initial results are quite disturbing.

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