The Supreme Court and the purposes of medicine

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The US government's limitations on medicine and the physician's role in defining their purposes of their profession are discussed. The US Supreme Court has given some rulings on the permissible roles of medicine and the federal government has enhanced medicine's influence in order to boost the states' authority.

Management dynamics, Drugs, Practice, Prescriptions (Drugs), Prescription (Law)

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Doctors and drug companies- scrutinizing influential relationships

Article Abstract:

The article highlights the Physician Payments Sunshine Act introduced by Senator Charles Grassley to solve the negative effects on patients due to physician-industry relationship. This act demands the medical industries having yearly revenues of more than $100 million to reveal the sum they present to physician.

Marketing procedures, Pharmaceutical preparations, Pharmaceutical industry, Medical care, Cost of, Health care costs, Prospective payment systems (Medical care), Customer relations

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