Social Responsibility of Pharmaceutical Companies

At question is the ethics of pharmaceutical companies with regard to standard practices and the status quo in day to day business operations. For instance, 1) Can doctors that sit on boards of the companies act impartial (to the consumer) when they make decisions to financially back research/drugs of the pharmaceutical company they represent and remain ethically compliant? The number of doctors, researchers and writers who accept numeric compensation from pharmaceutical companies is significant. This became apparent when in 1992, a group at UCLA attempted to conduct a study that would involve a group of medical experts as participants. In selecting the medical experts, they established a criterion whereby anyone who had received more than $300 in compensation over the past two years from a member of the pharmaceutical industry would be excluded from participating.
Unfortunately, the quota could not be met based on this criterion.......

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Title: Direct To Consumer Advertising
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