The Boston Globe has reported on its front page that ”Harvard Medical School will prohibit its 11,000 faculty from giving promotional talks for drug and medical device makers and accepting personal gifts, travel, or meals, under a new policy intended partly to guard against companies’ use of Harvard’s prestige to market their products.” These “conflict-of-interest rules also place stricter limits on the income faculty can earn from companies for consulting, joining boards, and other work; require public reporting of payments of at least $5,000 on a medical school website; and promise more robust internal reporting and monitoring of these relationships.” In addition, “Harvard, which provides continuing medical education for tens of thousands of doctors worldwide…will erect a more solid firewall between itself and healthcare companies during these courses.”
This is a smart move, considering that doctors who accept lucrative “consulting” or bonus agreements to choose a product are not necessarily objectively thinking about the safety of their patients. As medical malpractice lawyers in Tennessee, Eastern Arkansas and North Mississippi, we applaud the efforts of Harvard to clean up the already-muddy waters of drug company/device company payments to doctors.
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