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Follow on Google News | Medical Students Support Gift Ban; Urge Senate to Protect PatientsThe Mass. House of Representatives has voted to repeal the state’s gift ban, which regulates interactions between physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. AMSA is urging the Senate to support the ban that translates into better patient care.
By: American Medical Student Association Research continues to show that eliminating gifts and the misleading information sales representatives bring into hospitals, schools and academic medical centers, promotes evidence-based care for patients. Gifts are designed to influence doctors to prescribe more drugs and more expensive drugs and have often become a substitute for objective medical evidence. “Gift bans and other conflict-of- “Senate President Therese Murray, it is critical that you and the entire Senate uphold the gift ban as a way to provide quality, affordable patient care for everyone,” continues Salovich. Supporters of the ban, including AMSA, strongly advocate the elimination of all pharmaceutical marketing gifts including meals, coffee mugs, pens, and anything else that unnecessarily increases the cost of health care. Since 2002, AMSA has called for a comprehensive ban on gifts and all marketing efforts to medical professionals as part of its the PharmFree campaign (www.pharmfree.org) About the American Medical Student Association AMSA is the oldest and largest independent association of physicians-in- End
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