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Drug companies face the music
BMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/sbmj.0509350a (Published 01 September 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:0509350a
- Allison Barrett, second year medical student1
- 1Boston University School of Medicine
Hoping to strike a chord with patients
How do you get people to tune in to the tricks of pharmaceutical marketing? A US band, country-bluegrass satirists the Austin Lounge Lizards, has decided that one approach is to write and record a song about it.
The group has collaborated with US watchdog body Consumers Union—New York based publishers …
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