Last week the San Jose Mercury News reported, "The halls of Stanford University Hospital and Clinics will be just a little bit quieter today, the first day of a new ban on drug and device sales people bearing gifts, gratuities and unsolicited advice."
The story touches on this trend at Kaiser Medical Group, Yale, Penn and elsewhere.
One Kaiser exec says in the story, "The amount of waste created by the marketing activities of these companies is borne by patients.''
Posted by schwitz at October 9, 2006 08:47 AM | TrackBack