In a pervasive but controversial practice, drug firms frequently make monetary or in-kind payments to physicians in the … physician-drug combination. In an event study, we show that physicians increase prescribing of drugs for which they receive … payments in the months just after payment receipt, with no evidence of differential trends between paid and unpaid physicians …

We ask how patient knowledge of appropriate antibiotic usage affects both physicians prescribing behavior and the … knowledge also increases physicians' information provision about possible side effects, but has a negative impact on the quality …

Consumerism arises when patients acquire and use medical information from sources apart from their physicians, such as … cases harms both consumerist and ordinary patients. Data from a large national survey of physicians shows that high levels …