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...Goldsweig's letter was in response to another letter in The Times, from Andrew Marks, a second-year student at the Med School, who claimed that many medical students feel the gifts are more a promotion for the drug companies, and a way of influencing physicians to use the drugs of the donating companies...
...cost of promoting each product per physician ranges from about 50 cents to $1 to the companies, which send gifts to students at many medical schools. In a year this amount to approximately $1500 to $2500 per physician. Howard G. Goldsweig, assistant medical director at Ives Laboratories in New York, wrote this week in a letter to The New York Times...
This money, however, is spent to inform doctors how to use drugs "intelligently and rationally," Goldsweig wrote...
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