#282Listening: Fill in the BlanksAcademic,CoreMedium
Pharmaceutical Industry
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It is about a hundred years since that great Canadian-born physician Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford, [blank] about the increasing influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the medical [blank] . He would be turning in his grave at the way the industry now dominates doctors' [blank] habits. It does this not only by direct and indirect pressure on the doctors themselves, but also by [blank] the public to ask for scripts.
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It is about a hundred years since that great Canadian-born physician Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford, complained about the increasing influence of the pharmaceutical industry on the medical profession . He would be turning in his grave at the way the industry now dominates doctors' prescribing habits. It does this not only by direct and indirect pressure on the doctors themselves, but also by encouraging the public to ask for scripts.
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