Comment Summary

According to a 2005 NPR study, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4696316, American medical schools receive up to 16% of their funding from pharmaceutical companies. Should medical schools give up this funding?
#	Response Date	Other (please specify)
1.	6/11/2008 11:53:00 AM	Congress should not accept funding either
2.	6/11/2008 1:55:00 PM	Who is going to pay if the schools give it up!!
3.	6/11/2008 2:09:00 PM	and many medical schools still going broke, you want to take away funds? Tis support in NOT unprincipled.
4.	6/11/2008 3:15:00 PM	This finding is exactly because there is not enough funding from other sources.
5.	6/11/2008 3:25:00 PM	As long as the companies have no input into decision of medical student education.
6.	6/11/2008 3:25:00 PM	As long as the companies have no input into decision of medical student education.
7.	6/12/2008 12:58:00 AM	Why do medical schools with well-funded endowments even take this money? (Answer: because they are sluts for money). Harvard has a multibillion dollar endowment. Why do they even charge tuition?
8.	6/12/2008 11:59:00 AM	Much of the medical school support comes in the form of funding for clinical and preclinical trials and not the free pens and meals that everyone seems to get so hysterical about, and cutting that out will affect careers and cost of medical school tuition. And pharmaceutical index trials will then be all conducted by private practise physicians. Do we really want that? The key here is to prevent the companies from exercising editorial control over publication of results, particularly if they are adverse.
9.	6/14/2008 7:11:00 PM	Note, this was not an NPR 'study', but an NPR journalistic piece - there is a difference
10.	6/23/2008 1:01:00 PM	Disclosure is insufficient to preclude bias.
11.	6/23/2008 3:40:00 PM	Medical schools should receive funding from the medical industry through the form of a special education related tax on the medical industry.
12.	6/26/2008 2:07:00 AM	Tough one. Last questions links med schools and "teaching hospitals". Full extrication would be best in theory, but don't want small med schools to fail in the interim.
13.	6/26/2008 2:26:00 AM	Tough one. Last questions links med schools and "teaching hospitals". Full extrication would be best in theory, but don't want small med schools to fail in the interim.