Professor Weigh-Ins on Doctors' Relationship to Drug Companies

Published: Nov. 5, 2010, 4 a.m.

NPR and ProPublica recently aired a series of stories called "Dollars for Docs." The stories centered around a database that compiled the names of over 17,000 physicians who had taken money from prescription drug companies. The list includes a number of doctors in our region. Angela Hatton speaks with University of Louisville Chair of Family Medicine and Medical Humanism Dr. David Doukas, about the difficulties of keeping industry and medicine separate.