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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