{"id":819,"date":"2008-02-11T17:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=819"},"modified":"2008-02-11T17:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T21:28:00","slug":"implications-of-upmcs-ethics-policy-far-reaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=819","title":{"rendered":"Implications of UPMC&#8217;s ethics policy far-reaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/08041\/856084-28.stm\">Implications of UPMC&#8217;s ethics policy far-reaching<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As he delivered a typical $120 lunch order to a doctor&#8217;s office last week &#8212; three chicken or salmon entrees, three appetizers, a chicken sandwich and four salads &#8212; Robert Bishop was mindful that his business, Mobile Menus, soon would be filling fewer orders.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, he expects to lose the deliveries he makes to doctors affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>A new UPMC conflicts-of-interest policy will take effect that day aimed at making doctors&#8217; decisions free from influence created by gifts or improper relationships with the drug or medical device industries.<br \/>Among other provisions, the policy bans gifts such as pens, note pads and food provided by industry representatives as they work to present information about their products at doctors&#8217; offices.<\/p>\n<p>Losing that food business for the UPMC doctors he visits, Mr. Bishop said, will cut his $5,000 weekly sales by about 20 percent. He said nearly all the lunches he provides to doctors&#8217; offices are paid for by drug industry representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Good on UPMC&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implications of UPMC&#8217;s ethics policy far-reaching: &#8220;As he delivered a typical $120 lunch order to a doctor&#8217;s office last week &#8212; three chicken or salmon entrees, three appetizers, a chicken &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=819\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Implications of UPMC&#8217;s ethics policy far-reaching&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceutical-industry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}