{"id":938,"date":"2007-04-29T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T08:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/04\/29\/physician%e2%80%93industry-dependency\/"},"modified":"2012-07-26T12:03:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T10:03:48","slug":"physician%e2%80%93industry-dependency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/04\/physician%e2%80%93industry-dependency\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician&#8217;s industry dependency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/full\/356\/17\/1742\">NEJM<\/a> has an article about &#8220;A National Survey of Physician&#8217;s Industry Relationships&#8221; &#8211; a topic that I did not expect in the NEJM at least from what I have read during the recent change at the editorial office. That&#8217;s life &#8211; always a surprise.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMost physicians (94%) reported some type of relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, and most of these relationships involved receiving food in the workplace (83%) or receiving drug samples (78%). More than one third of the respondents (35%) received reimbursement for costs associated with professional meetings or continuing medical education, and more than one quarter (28%) received payments for consulting, giving lectures, or enrolling patients in trials.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By chance the German \u00c4rzteblatt has a similiar thread (threat?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerzteblatt.de\/v4\/archiv\/artikel.asp?src=suche&#038;id=55402\">at the moment<\/a>. Where is border between yea, yea and nay, nay?<br \/>\nscienceblog:http:content.nejm.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/356\/17\/1742<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NEJM has an article about &#8220;A National Survey of Physician&#8217;s Industry Relationships&#8221; &#8211; a topic that I did not expect in the NEJM at least from what I have read during the recent change at the editorial office. That&#8217;s life &#8211; always a surprise. &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 08.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1002,1003,1004,1006,1005],"class_list":["post-938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-continuing_medical_education","tag-industry_relationships","tag-pharmaceutical_industry","tag-professional_meetings","tag-received_payments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}