{"id":323,"date":"2010-04-09T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2010-04-09T16:00:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:00:29","slug":"drug-maker-pfizer-had-69-wisconsin-doctors-on-its-payroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wis-injury.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/drug-maker-pfizer-had-69-wisconsin-doctors-on-its-payroll.html","title":{"rendered":"Drug Maker Pfizer Had 69 Wisconsin Doctors On Its Payroll"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

It turns out that 69 Wisconsin physicians were on Pfizer\u2019s payroll during the last half of last year, collecting just over $200,000 from the world\u2019s biggest drug company, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday. http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/features\/health\/90323677.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Pfizer last week released a list of doctors across the nation that it had paid as speakers, researchers and consultants. The group included Pamela Wilson, a retired Madison doctor who got paid $42,000 as a Pfizer speaker, and Daniel Duffy, a Cedarburg family practitioner who received $17,000.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0According to the Journal Sentinel, Pfizer speakers averaged $3,400 for that period, the last six months of 2009.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Duffy was also on Eli Lilly\u2019s payroll, getting $50,000 as a speaker for that drug maker last year.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Drug companies hire doctor speakers to help convince their fellow physicians to write more prescriptions for brand-name drugs.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0So far five big drug companies, including Pfizer and Eli Lilly, in the past few months have revealed lists of the doctors who they pay as speakers and consultants.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0The 69 Wisconsin doctors being paid by Pfizer received from $1,000 to $42,000.<\/p>\r\n

\u00a0Almost 200 Wisconsin doctors, and 15,000 nationally, appear on the lists the five drug makers have so far made public.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It turns out that 69 Wisconsin physicians were on Pfizer\u2019s payroll during the last half of last year, collecting just over $200,000 from the world\u2019s biggest drug company, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Friday. http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/features\/health\/90323677.html \u00a0Pfizer last week released a list of doctors across the nation that it had paid as speakers, researchers and consultants. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[405,404,406,403,407],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doctors","tag-eli-lilly","tag-payroll","tag-pfizer","tag-physicians"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t