Our Daily Meds : Find a doctor who has thrown the sales reps out of his office says Melody Petersen

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"Find a doctor who has thrown the sales reps out of his office, who has said, 'I'm going to do what is right for my patients'," Melody Petersen, author of a new book called Our Daily Meds: How The Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines And Hooked The Nation On Prescription Drugs told Bill Moyers.

"There is a growing number of doctors who feel that way," Petersen continued.

"I think the thing that could do the most good is to have a law that bans doctors from taking money from drug companies."

"We need our doctors to be our independent advocates again." Former New York Times Journalist

Melody former covered the drug industry for the New York Times

Melody, who formerly covered the drug industry for the New York Times, revealed this last Friday night, May 16th, 2008, in an interview with Bill Moyers on his PBS television program Journal.

REFERENCE

Petersen M. Our Daily Meds : How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves Into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.

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