I've been saying this, yet I can't believe I'm reading it:
"Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., the committee chairman, said the new documents raise questions about Merck's handling of Vioxx. But he said he was not prepared to criticize the company without more information, noting that Merck made public results of its own studies that raised the concerns - data subsequently widely published, in medical journals and newspapers."A wide-awake physician would have obviously known about this?" Davis asked.
"That is correct," Erb responded.
But another witness, Dr. Michael Wilkes, vice dean for medical education at the University of California-Davis, said physicians are busy and look for shortcuts to get information. "Doctors don't read the medical literature," he said, and often rely on the salesman they meet in their office." - Associated Press
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