Doctors repping for pharma
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| Topics: depression, medication, pharmaceutical
What is the cost of paying doctors to speak on behalf of a specific medicine? Psychiatrist Daniel Carlat discusses how he was recruited, and why he stopped lecturing about the antidepressant Effexor XR for Wyeth Pharmaceuticals. Carlat tells this story in "Dr. Drug Rep," published in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
