TY - JOUR
T1 - Medical education and corporate sponsorship
AU - Capozzi, James D.
AU - Rhodes, Rosamond
AU - Delsignore, Jeanne L.
PY - 2003/1/1
Y1 - 2003/1/1
N2 - Dr. A is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement. His local detail representative tells him of a hip and knee course with an excellent faculty and a hands-on workshop. The representative offers to pay Dr. A's travel and lodging expenses as well as a $1000 stipend to compensate him for the time away from his practice. The local detail representative offers to buy Drs. B and C lunch at a nearby restaurant in order to discuss her company's new fracture-fixation system. Dr. D is invited by a detail representative to a dinner lecture given by a prominent physician. The representative offers to donate $100 to Dr. D's medical school if she attends the dinner. A representative for a spinal instrumentation manufacturer offers Dr. E a trip, with all expenses paid, to attend a course on fixation techniques for the treatment of unstable spinal fractures if the physician will use the company's fixation system.
AB - Dr. A is an orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement. His local detail representative tells him of a hip and knee course with an excellent faculty and a hands-on workshop. The representative offers to pay Dr. A's travel and lodging expenses as well as a $1000 stipend to compensate him for the time away from his practice. The local detail representative offers to buy Drs. B and C lunch at a nearby restaurant in order to discuss her company's new fracture-fixation system. Dr. D is invited by a detail representative to a dinner lecture given by a prominent physician. The representative offers to donate $100 to Dr. D's medical school if she attends the dinner. A representative for a spinal instrumentation manufacturer offers Dr. E a trip, with all expenses paid, to attend a course on fixation techniques for the treatment of unstable spinal fractures if the physician will use the company's fixation system.
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U2 - 10.2106/00004623-200301000-00035
DO - 10.2106/00004623-200301000-00035
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 12533593
AN - SCOPUS:0037264466
SN - 0021-9355
VL - 85
SP - 168
EP - 170
JO - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
JF - Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
IS - 1
ER -