By invitation only, 300 Canadian doctors have a chance to earn $6,600 on top of their usual public health-care fees by taking part in some research.
Here’s what they have to do: sign up 12 high-risk heart patients, see each of them three times as part of normal practice, and fill out forms describing what drugs were prescribed.
The doctors get an additional $500 for attending a three-hour information session about the research. It’s called the Guidelines Oriented Approach to Lipid Lowering (GOAL). And it is one example of how doctors receive money from outside the public system, often from the pharmaceutical industry.
GOAL is funded by Amgen, a pharmaceutical company. But it’s being conducted by a private research organization called the Canadian Heart Research Centre, which is chaired by Dr. Anatoly Langer. He designed the program and applied to Amgen for funding.
Read full story here: Does Your Doctor Get Money From Drug Companies? It’s Not Easy To Find Out – Health – CBC News
