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That hasn't stopped "buying expensive stuff for doctors to sway them" from being a thing, even now! http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324695104578414

• smitherfield 10y ago
  I didn't say the existing rules were perfect, I'm just noting they exist. You can also say that a "Yelp for drugs" wouldn't change the existing incentives. FWIW, the doctors I know take ethics very seriously; they take great pains not to be seen as accepting gifts, they treat pharma company claims with a great deal of reasonable skepticism, they always prefer non-drug and OTC treatment to prescriptions, and generics to branded drugs. A few bad apples do not spoil the tree.