Some Monterey County doctors paid by drug companies

Monterey County Herald

Between 2009 and 2012, major pharmaceutical companies paid California doctors more than $240 million to promote their drugs to other physicians. More than 50 of the recipients were in Monterey and Salinas. Between them, they hauled in at least a half-million dollars. The totals represent only a portion of the legal-though-controversial payments that "big pharm" is doling out to doctors and other health professionals to get their drugs prescribed.

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