Does Marketing Interfere with Medicine?
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2014
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
American doctors and teaching hospitals got more than $3.5 billion from drug companies and medical device makers in just five months of last year. Do doctors always prescribe what’s best for their patients—or for their own pocket books? Do they even recognize their own conflicts of interest?
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:08.2 | Does marketing get in the way of medicine? |
| 0:14.4 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.4 | A daily look at the issues, Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.0 | American doctors and teaching hospitals got more than $3.5 billion from drug companies and |
| 0:26.7 | medical device makers in just five months of last year. Payments went not just for medical research, |
| 0:32.1 | but for promotional speaking, consulting, and dining out, raising disturbing questions. |
| 0:37.4 | Do doctors always prescribe what's best for their patients or for their own pocketbooks? |
| 0:41.9 | Do they even recognize their own conflicts of interest? |
| 0:45.2 | Doctors themselves are hotly divided. |
| 0:47.6 | How much do patients really need to know? |
| 0:50.2 | Today's talking point, why has half the world's wildlife just disappeared? |
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| 1:29.5 | Doctors get big money from drug companies and medical device makers for promotional speeches, |
| 1:34.0 | consulting, and meals. |
| 1:35.7 | How much does that influence their professional judgment and their treatment of patients? |
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