TY - JOUR AU - Zhang, Weidong AU - Grouse, Lawrence PY - 2013 TI - Physician bribes in the US and China JF - Journal of Thoracic Disease; Vol 5, No 5 (October 03, 2013): Journal of Thoracic Disease Y2 - 2013 KW - N2 - This article discusses the issues related to proprietary organizations such as pharmaceutical companies providing payments to physicians to influence their prescribing of the company’s products. Such payments, or bribes, may not be associated with an explicit agreement to prescribe the products or it may be a quid pro quo agreement to do so. The recent finding that employees of the British-based company Glaxo SmithKline (GSK) provided funds to physicians in China to influence their prescribing has made this a topic of concern in China as well as in many other countries. UR - https://jtd.amegroups.org/article/view/1666