19/11/2008: Intimidation by Pharmaceutical Companies

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Tue Nov 18 19:00:00 EST 2008

Doctors sometimes discover that the drugs they're prescribing can be more harmful to some of their patients than the diseases they treat. But as CBC Radio health reporter Pauline Dakin tells the Current, some doctors say they've been intimidated by pharmaceutical companies into keeping their suspicions and their research quiet.