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"Drug companies are paying Australian doctors millions of dollars a year to fly
to overseas conferences and meetings, give talks to other doctors, and to serve
on advisory boards, our research shows.
Our team analysed reports from major drug companies, in the first comprehensive
analysis of its kind. We found drug companies paid more than A$33 million to
doctors in the three years from late 2019 to late 2022 for these consultancies
and expenses.
We know this underestimates how much drug companies pay doctors as it leaves
out the most common gift – food and drink – which drug companies in Australia
do not declare.
Due to COVID restrictions, the timescale we looked at included periods where
doctors were likely to be travelling less and attending fewer in-person medical
conferences. So we suspect current levels of drug company funding to be even
higher, especially for travel."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
