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Article: Americans Have Few Concerns About How Pharmaceutical Companies Market to Doctors; Survey Shows That People Trust Their Doctors to Do the Right Thing for Them.
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- PR Newswire
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- January 16, 2003
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NEW YORK and ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- NEW YORK and ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- The results of the latest Wall Street Journal Online/Harris Interactive(R) Health-Care Poll, conducted this month, showed that a clear majority (67%) of adult Americans trust their doctors to choose the best drugs for them, despite the influence that drug marketers may have on their decision-making.
Some key findings of the poll, which measured the public's opinion toward pharmaceutical companies' marketing of drugs to physicians, are:
* A quarter (23%) of those surveyed said their doctor may be too
influenced by the pharmaceutical companies' marketing efforts, ...