Comments on: $19 billion: total value of gifts to physicians by Big Pharma annually /edsblog/19-billion-total-value-of-gifts-to-physicians-by-big-pharma-annually/ Helping Americans get safe access to affordable medications. Mon, 06 May 2013 18:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Zagreus Ammon /edsblog/19-billion-total-value-of-gifts-to-physicians-by-big-pharma-annually/comment-page-1/#comment-77012 Zagreus Ammon Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:32:15 +0000 /edsblog/19-billion-total-value-of-gifts-to-physicians-by-big-pharma-annually/#comment-77012 I think the effort’s a bit of a waste when you consider about 1.5 M physicians in the country and the fact that post-its, pens and even the odd dinner doesn’t add up to the inflated value of the drugs these guys sample.

The mean is $1200 per doctor. I bet the median is lower…

But I always enjoy the cheerleaders.

:-)

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