Does SMDC do labor/delivery?  If so, did it affect formula company giveaways
to mothers too?
Judy

http://wcco.com/local/health.system.drug.2.633404.html

MN Health System Purges All Drug Co. Trinkets
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) ― When the SMDC Health System in Duluth purged almost all
the pens, notepads, coffee mugs and other promotional trinkets drug
companies had given its doctors over the years, it took 20 shopping carts to
haul everything away.
[snip]   
It scoured its four hospitals and 17 clinics across northeastern Minnesota
and northwestern Wisconsin for clipboards, clocks, mouse pads, stuffed
animals and other items with drug logos.
   
Trinkets, free samples, free food and drinks, free trips and other gifts
used to be pervasive throughout the medical profession, but observers say
that's starting to change.
   
"We just decided for a lot of reasons we didn't want to do that any longer,"
Dr. Kenneth Irons, chief of community clinics for SMDC, said Friday.
   
So SMDC put together a comprehensive conflict-of-interest policy that, among
other things limits access to its clinics by drug company representatives.
Employees suggested the "Clean Sweep" trinket roundup as a way to get the
attention of staff throughout the system to show that it was serious, Irons
said.

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