Deaths-head Jester
About:
[The Project]
[The ApocaDocs]
[Equal Share]
 The Six Scenarios:
[Species Collapse]
[Infectious Disease]
[Climate Chaos]
[Resource Depletion]
[Biology Breach]
[Recovery]
 Explore:

 Play:

It's weekly, funny, and free!
SEARCH

More than 5,600 stories!
A great gift
for crisis deniers!

The ApocaDocs have a Book!
Humoring the Horror of the
Converging Emergencies
94 color pages
$24.99 now $15!
Or read FREE online!


Twitter



Ping this story
in social media:
del.icio.us
Digg
Newsvine
NowPublic
Reddit
Facebook
StumbleUpon
Posted Mon Dec 20 2010: from ProPublica:
Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1292865762
 As medical schools wrestle with how to keep drug companies from corrupting their faculties, Stanford University is often lauded for its tough stance. The school was one of the first to stop sales representatives from roaming its halls in 2006 [1]. It cut off the flow of free lunches and trinkets emblazoned with drug names. And last year, in a blow to its physicians' wallets, Stanford banned them from giving paid promotional talks for pharmaceutical companies. One thing it didn't do was make sure its faculty followed that rule. A ProPublica investigation found that more than a dozen of the school's doctors were paid speakers in apparent violation of its policy--two of them earning six figures since last year.
[Read more stories about: capitalist greed, contamination, pharmwater, toxic water]

New!:
No reader quips yet -- be the first!

Got a PaniQuip?
Your Quip (limit 140 characters, no links, just wit):

First name:

The text shown in the Web image to the right:
We reserve the right to reuse, remove, or refuse any entry.
'Doc Jim says:
Money... is the sweetest drug of all.

NEXT>
More stories:
  • Rules for coal ash unclear: Enforcement will depend on whether EPA classifies waste as hazardous
  • Newsmaker of the year: In the eye of the storm
  • (Med Schools Flunk at Keeping Faculty Off Pharma Speaking Circuit)
  • Going green to save the white of the Alps
  • 2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
    •

    Want to explore more?
    Try the PaniCloud!
    Copyright 2010 The Apocadocs.com