South Florida doctors paid thousands by Eli Lilly

While policymakers question whether drug makers are hurting healthcare reform by paying doctors fees, Eli Lilly revealed that it paid ten South Florida providers more than $10,000 each during the first quarter.
Read article in the Miami Herald (Florida/USA)
Comment: Top of the South Florida list -- and No. 3 overall in the U.S. -- was an internist, Manuel Suarez-Barcelo, who admitted that he earned $65,000 by making presentations, mostly to nursing home staff, about the Eli Lilly drug osteoporosis drug Forteo.