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Profiles in medical courage: Peter Wilmshurst, the physician fugitive

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العنوان: Profiles in medical courage: Peter Wilmshurst, the physician fugitive
المؤلفون: Robbins RA
المصدر: Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Vol 4, Pp 134-141 (2012)
بيانات النشر: Arizona Thoracic Society
سنة النشر: 2012
المجموعة: Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles
مصطلحات موضوعية: NMT Medical, Peter Wilmshurst, STARFlex, Sterling Winthrop, amrinone, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9, Diseases of the respiratory system, RC705-779
الوصف: No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. "Nothing defines human beings better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs." -Scott Adams, US humorist, in The Dilbert Principle (1996)Peter Wilmshurst, a cardiologist in the UK, has taken on medical companies over their honesty not once, but twice. His exciting story illustrates how far companies will go to protect their quest for big bucks and the potential financial risk incurred by honest physicians who do clinical research. A movie entitled “The Fugitive”, based on the popular 1960’s television series, was released in 1993. The movie and television series both tell the story of Dr. Richard Kimble wrongly accused of murdering his wife and Kimble’s search for the real killer, a one-armed man. In the movie version, Harrison Ford plays Kimble and discovers that the one-armed man, Frederick Sykes, is employed by a pharmaceutical company that is working on a new drug …
نوع الوثيقة: article in journal/newspaper
اللغة: English
Relation: http://www.swjpcc.com/general-medicine/2012/4/27/profiles-in-medical-courage-peter-wilmshurst-the-physician-f.html?SSScrollPosition=281; https://doaj.org/toc/2160-6773; https://doaj.org/article/5507c15afea0437a9e7ffc8916bc3767
الاتاحة: https://doaj.org/article/5507c15afea0437a9e7ffc8916bc3767
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.5C7F216B
قاعدة البيانات: BASE