Big Pharma pays out $6.49bn to American doctors in a year

Big Pharma gave $6.49bn to doctors in the US alone last year. In all, 607,000 American physicians and medical professionals received the money as research funding, gifts, fees, meals or travel expenses, according to official figures released under America’s own freedom of information legislation, the Sunshine Act...

One of the biggest payers was Roche, the Swiss pharmaceutical, which gave $435m to doctors during the year.  It paid out more than even some of the major American drug companies,......