Providing free drug samples to patients risks harm to public health

The tradition of American physicians handing out free drug samples to their patients "has many serious disadvantages and is as anachronistic as bloodletting and high colonic irrigations," say two academics in an essay in this week's PLoS Medicine.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news161315461.html">Providing free drug samples to patients risks harm to public health</a></p> <p>The tradition of American physicians handing out free drug samples to their patients "has many serious disadvantages and is as anachronistic as bloodletting and high colonic irrigations," say two academics in an essay in this week's <i>PLoS Medicine</i>.</p>