The teaching hospitals associated with Harvard Medical School recently issued a directive forbidding top personnel from involving themselves with private health-care companies in various ways, as by accepting seats on the boards of drug companies. The Manhattan Institute's Medical Progress Today site assembles a roundtable on this topic that draws on a glittering display of talent, including Jack Calfee (AEI), Richard Epstein (Chicago), Thomas Stossel (Brigham & Women's), Thomas Huddle (U. of Alabama), Rita Numerof (Numerof & Associates), Lance Stell (Davidson College), and Elizabeth Whelan (American Council on Science and Health).
Roundtable: conflicts of interest and medicine
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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| Bridget Carroll Press Officer, Manhattan Institute bcarroll@manhattan-institute.org |



