"A Breach of Trust"

Courtesy Health Care Renewal  Fri, 05/22/2009 - 12:55

This new variation on a now old theme first appeared in the New York Times :

A former surgeon at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, who is a paid consultant for a medical company, published a study that made false claims and overstated the benefits of the company’s product in treating soldiers severely injured in Iraq , the hospital’s commander said Tuesday.

An investigation by Walter Reed found that the study cited higher numbers of...


 

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