Drug Companies Conflicts

Listen to two sides of the debate over whether close ties between doctors and drug companies compromise patient care. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and medical students at major universities have raised conflict of interest questions.

The guests are Dr. Jerome Kassirer, Distinguished Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and author of “On the Take: How Medicine’s Complicity with Big Business Can Endanger Your Health,” and Dr. Tom Stossel, Director of Translational Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.

Audio: BBC,PRI & WBUR's Here & Now, April 15th. Host: Robin Young