A physician doesn’t feel guilty for accepting pharma gifts:
There remains one problem—I don’t feel that much shame for my former behavior, at least the money-grubbing part. I just don’t think that the financial hanky-panky between drug companies and doctors constitutes the central crisis in American medicine or, for that matter, the most corrosive aspect of the entire messy doctor-drug relationship. They need us; we need them. We do the studies they can’t do because they aren’t doctors. They invent the drugs that we can’t invent because we aren’t chemists. It’s pretty straightforward, really. A symbiosis.
