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Who's paying for lunch? Here's exactly how drug companies wine and dine our doctors

  • Written by Alice Fabbri, PhD student, University of Sydney
imageNow you can find out who's wining and dining our doctors, nurses and pharmacists with publicly available data of drug company funded events.from www.shutterstock.com

In June 2015, 24 Australian cancer specialists flew to Chicago to attend a five-day conference. Drug giant Amgen funded the trip, including registration, transfers and wining and...

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