Medical Students Disappointed With Court's Decision To Protect Data Mining

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation's oldest and largest, independent association for physicians-in-training, is deeply disappointed by yesterday's Supreme Court decision holding that a Vermont law requiring physicians to consent to the sale of their prescribing information to drug companies for marketing purposes is unconstitutional. The Court's decision ultimately protects "data mining," the practice of purchasing physician prescribing data to inform more "effective" marketing practices...

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