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Drug Sales Bring Huge Profits, and Scrutiny, to Cancer Doctors

Date: January 27, 2003

Author: Reed Abelson

QUOTE: The cancer specialists can make huge sums...from the difference between what they pay for the drugs and what they charge insurers and government programs.

ABSTRACT: Oncologists, unlike other doctors, often buy prescription drugs at discounted prices and sell them directly to patients rather than sending them to a pharmacy. Some say that these sales are unethical, arguing that profit-motive could effect what course of treatment a patient receives. --- Sam Carter

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• Robert M. Hayes

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• Medicare Rights Center (MRC)
• New York Times Company

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  • Ethics (Organizational)

• Health & Medicine
  • Health Care Business
    • Pharmaceutical / Drug / Biotech

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