Does ETH-004 discourage physicians from working collaboratively with the health products industry?
Collaborative exchanges of information between physicians and members of the health products industry are essential to the development of new medications and other products to successfully treat patients and improve their quality of life. The acceptance of gifts should not be the focus of the important work that is shared by physicians and members of the health products industry. ETH-004 removes the distraction that the acceptance of gifts causes and refocuses the attention of the health care community, legislators, patients and regulators on the important contributions that physicians and members of the health products industry make toward evidence-based biomedical discoveries, product development and education.
