Australian Medical Association

The AMA's Position Statement on Doctors' Relationships with Industry 2010 provides guidance for doctors on maintaining ethical relationships with the pharmaceutical industry, medical device and technology industry, and health care product and service suppliers in general ('industry'). While collaboration between doctors and industry contributes beneficially to the quality of health care that Australians receive, doctors have a responsibility to ensure that their relationships with industry are consistent with their duties to their patients and towards society at large.

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The AMA Code of Ethics articulates and promotes a body of ethical principles to guide doctors' conduct in their relationships with patients, colleagues and society. This Code has grown out of other similar ethical codes stretching back into history including the Hippocratic Oath.

The NSW Supreme Court's June 2003 decision of PD v Dr Nicholas Harvey and Another reminds doctors in clinical practice of the importance of effective patient-doctor communication and duty of care to third parties.

AMA Position Statement: Guidelines for Doctors Acting as Expert Medical Witnesses - 1997