A public resource for checking out if your doctor or institution is receiving money from drug companies is available. A quick search of Renown and some geriatric doctors in the Reno area provided these results:
Name / Payee | City | State | Company | Year | Category | Amount |
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RENOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | Reno | Nev. | AstraZeneca | 2011 | Research | $2,000 |
RENOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER | Reno | Nev. | AstraZeneca | 2012 | Research | $13,236 |
ERIC DRUMMER (Payee: RENOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER) | RENO | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2011 | Research | $13,675 |
ERIC DRUMMER (Payee: RENOWN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER) | RENO | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2012 | Research | $22,718 |
Name / Payee | City | State | Company | Year | Category | Amount |
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Deborah Hughes | Las Vegas | Nev. | Valeant | 2011 | Meals | $0-100 |
Deborah Hughes | Las Vegas | Nev. | Valeant | 2011 | Meals | $0-100 |
Deborah Hughes | Las Vegas | Nev. | Valeant | 2012 | Meals | $0-100 |
Deborah Hughes | Las Vegas | Nev. | Valeant | 2012 | Meals | $0-100 |
DEBORAH MARTZ | LAS VEGAS | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2010 | Other | $17,400 |
DEBORAH MARTZ | LAS VEGAS | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2010 | Travel | $3,631 |
DEBORAH MARTZ | LAS VEGAS | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2011 | Other | $600 |
DEBORAH MARTZ | LAS VEGAS | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2011 | Consulting | $14,250 |
DEBORAH MARTZ | LAS VEGAS | Nev. | Eli Lilly | 2011 | Travel | $3,373 |
DEBORAH S BAKER | RENO | Nev. | Pfizer | 2010 | Meals | $284 |
DEBORAH WALKER FREDERICKS | RENO | Nev. | Novartis | 2010-11 | Speaking | $750 |
From the article: (Susan Abram – Daily News) Speaking about diseases for a drug company has become a lucrative moonlighting gig for those in the medical profession locally and across the nation. But while the practice of speaking is not illegal, it raises the question of conflict of interest: Is the drug being given to you because you need it, or because the doctor writing out the prescription is paid by Big Pharma?
“Pharmaceutical companies used to take doctors to dinner, but that was banned years ago,” said Dr. Arthur Chanzel Jeng, an infection control specialist at UCLA-Olive View Medical Center in Sylmar. “Now they must provide some educational content.”
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