Harvard Physician Quits Job and Keeps Paid Speaking Gigs

Lawrence M. DuBuske, an allergy and asthma specialist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, will give up both jobs rather than give up lucrative speaking engagements for pharmaceutical companies, The Boston Globe reports. Partners HealthCare hospital network, which includes Brigham and Women’s, has a new conflict-of-interest policy that bars doctors from participating in speakers’ bureaus. Last April, May, and June, Dr. DuBuske made nearly $100,000 talking to other doctors about drug companies’ products.