{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The Ethical Nag","provider_url":"http:\/\/ethicalnag.org","author_name":"Carolyn Thomas","author_url":"https:\/\/ethicalnag.org\/author\/czthomas\/","title":"“I’m not a real doctor – but I play one on drug ads”","type":"link","html":"In 1990, the New England Journal of Medicine decided not to accept any articles or editorials from physicians who accept money from a company whose product was featured in the article, but in 2002 the journal relented  - because it couldn't find enough independent medical authors. Here's another high-profile example about what happened when a celebrity doctor starring in a TV drug ad while out rowing turned out to be neither a practicing physician nor a rower. "}