Industry Gifts Don’t Bother Many Physicians, Surgeons in Particular
In a survey, more than 70 percent of physicians found industry-sponsored lunches for physicians appropriate and 25 percent said accepting large gifts from industry representatives was also appropriate, according to a report in the Archives of Surgery.
Surgeons were more likely to find gifts appropriate, probably because surgeons have an integral role in developing devices, wrote Jo Buyske, MD, of the American Board of Surgery in Philadelphia, in an invited critique.
She noted different levels of interaction, from free pens to outright payments, should prompt different levels of concern, but cautioned that even a free pen comes with some expectations behind it.
Read the Archives of Surgery article on gifts.
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