A few months ago on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he spoke about the amount of money pharmaceutical companies spend marketing to physicians. Check out the video clip, the numbers are staggering. I am certainly not an anti-pharma type of person, but this should make you think twice about the free lunches and events provided by drug companies.
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