Med School Pharma Gift Ban Has Lasting Impact
February 5, 2013By Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today | Published: January 31, 2013 – Physicians who attended a medical school with a policy that prohibited gifts from drug companies were less likely to prescribe two of three newly marketed psychotropic drugs once they were in practice, researchers found. They also found that the longer a physician was in school while the policy was in effect and the stricter the policy, the lower the likelihood of prescribing the new drug over older ones in that class. Read more