Joel Lexchin

Abstract Should we be concerned about financial conflicts of interest (COI) between doctors and the pharmaceutical industry? Some people will say no as there are clearly doctors who celebrate the relationship. Others say that it does not matter to patients, but the evidence says otherwise. Financial COI is different from other types of conflicts because […]

Over the past few years we have been repeatedly told that we now live in an evidence-based medical world. That should be good news since evidence comes from science. But on a deeper level doctors’ and the public’s faith in science rests on trust; trust that the right questions have been asked, trust that the