Payments by industry to celebrity medical practitioners - some Parliamentarians think this is a big deal.
TV doc advice? Time to switch off the set.
TTE readers will recall how the friendly, fresh-faced medical practitioners advised you to do this and that from a TV while you were comfortably ensconced in your sitting rooms.
Except these fresh-faced colleagues had forgotten to tell folks they were being paid. So you were probably watching a covert advert for pharma and their great friend HMG.
We thoug…
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