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Sales Rep and Doctor at Center of Xarelto Survey Scandal Conflict over “Patient Consent”
In a scandal erupting over an employee of Bayer Yakuhin who confessed that he browsed through the medical charts of patients in a patient questionnaire survey on the anticoagulant Xarelto (rivaroxaban), the sales rep and the doctor concerned tell conflicting…
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