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News is out in the Boston Globe that Eli Lilly’s recently-released list of payouts to docs includes 60 Massachusetts doctors, including some at Boston Medical Center–the main hospital for the Boston University School of Medicine. The university has ordered the docs in question to stop doing talks for industry. It’s refreshing to see a university take these sorts of things so seriously and so promptly.

How much money were doctors getting? What products were they promoting?

“At Boston Medical Center, Dr. Brian McGeeney, a neurologist, received $30,000 during that period [first three months of 2009], and Dr. Elliot Sternthal, an endocrinologist, was paid $11,587.50, according to a faculty registry on Lilly’s website.”

McGeeney was promoting Cymbalta, Lilly’s anti-depressant, presumably for fibromyalgia.

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