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Government, industry and the medical profession
ménage à trois
From: Doctors in Denial
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Describes how the alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry developed in the period from the 1960s to 2015.
Contributors
Joel Lexchin MD
JOEL LEXCHIN, MD, is an internationally-recognized expert in pharmaceutical policy. He received his MD from the University of Toronto and has spent over thirty years working as an emergency physician in the Toronto area. He taught health policy and is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University. He has been an advocate for change in pharmaceutical policy for thirty-five years, has appeared before numerous parliamentary committees, and has authored or co-authored over 150 articles about all aspects of how medicines are developed and used.