American Medical Association
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
AMA House of Delegates endorses Council on Judicial and Ethical Affairs report entitled "Sale of Health-Related Products from Physicians' Offices" at the association's annual meeting in Chicago June 22. The report addresses physician office sales of products, such as dermatologics, and instructs health care professionals that such items should be offered to patients "free of charge or at cost," and that physicians should "disclose the nature" of any "financial arrangement with a supplier or manufacturer" to the patient. The report also suggests that physicians should not sell any item that a patient can obtain at a "local pharmacy or health products store"