NOVARTIS looking for ‘product champions’
Advert in the Sunday Independent (Dublin) – 29 September 2002
Category: Medical Education
Evidence has repeatedly demonstrated that when marketing is conflated with medical education the consequences can not just be harmful but also undermine the scientific pursuit of objectivity.
Were Hippocrates alive today:
Published in the Sunday Independent (Dublin) , 1 October 2006.
‘Playing the market’
This article was published in the Irish Independent , 4 May 2006
Book Review: The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines
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“Generally regarded as high quality meetings”
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My final choice: speaking truth to power
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