Should doctors be paid by pharmaceutical companies to promote their drugs?

GlaxoSmithKline has announced it will no longer pay doctors to promote its drugs, nor reward sales representatives based on how many prescriptions doctors write. Jerry Avorn, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Thomas Stossel, professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, were guests on PBS NewsHour to discuss the business and ethical issues at play.

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