Well, folks, it finally happened! And it only took 4 months! Let me explain... Many of you probably know my aversion to the historically intimate relationship between big pharm and the medical profession. Let me not be misunderstood, I - as much as anyone - love free stuff such as expensive dinners, CME credits in Hawaii, front row seats, and the ever ubiquitous pen. But as much we doctors deluded ourselves to thinking such freebies do not change our prescribing patterns, we're wrong. It does and multiple studies confirm it.
Sooooo, that being said, I stand before you the new recipient of the Mayo Clinic Internal Medicine Review - free of course. Obviously my bark is then much stronger than my bite. I make the excuse that fundamentally my acceptance of such a gift is purely educational. By taking the book, reading it, and employing that which I've read, I will make medical decisions based upon evidenced based outcomes.... right?! Surely, I am not ethically challenged enough to prescribe Plavix in situations where it's efficacy isn't proven. Well, honestly, that is a question we'll never know the answer to.
I fear I have engaged a slippery slope.
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