GlaxoSmithKline’s historic $3 billion settlement for off-label marketing revealed more than fraud. Its $275,000 payment to TV celebrity Dr. Drew Pinsky to promote Wellbutrin highlighted the questionable relationship between doctors and drug companies.
At 5:30 p.m. Sunday on the Philadelphia CNN-News affiliate WFMZ-TV, The American Law Journal presents, “Drugs and Docs: Is a Pharmaceutical Company Paying Your Doctor?” Joining host Christopher Naughton are plaintiffs attorney Claudine Homolash of Sheller P.C. and corporate defense counsel Raymond Williams of DLA Piper, as well as journalist and editor with Pharmalot and Med Ad News, Ed Silverman. Reshma Ramachandran, PharmFree fellow with the American Medical Student Association, rounds out the panel.
