Perks put patients at risk - claim: "A SENIOR Geelong Hospital anaesthetist has been accused of putting patients at risk by prescribing a drug he was effectively being paid by a pharmaceutical company to use.
A Fair Work Australia hearing was on Tuesday told Dr Mark Colson reported colleague Dr Simon Tomlinson to the ombudsman in 2007 for accepting business-class flights from Pfizer for him and his family to attend a conference in New York.
Deputy director of anaesthesia at Geelong Hospital Dr Colin Gordon said Dr Colson also alleged the hospital had the highest prescription rate of a drug called parecoxib because of Dr Tomlinson's dealings with Pfizer and that this was ''harming patients and potentially causing patients to die''."
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