The Investing Physicians Have Stake In Costly Services Since its start, Columbia has invited doctors to invest in the hospitals where they practice.

They met twice a month and often invited doctors, psychiatrists, ministers and attorneys to address their meetings, even if the message was clearly disparaging to lesbians.

Ali invited European doctors to create a faculty of medicine in Cairo, imported new agricultural and industrial techniques - and was eventually undermined by the British for geopolitical reasons.

For example, Mr. Sullivan said, Warner-Lambert had invited doctors to continuing medical education classes that the company said would provide unbiased information about Neurontin.

Thomas Jefferson Medical College has invited doctors who perform abortions to speak to the students about what they do and why they do it.

It was not wise to invite doctors with only one point of view or to refuse to invite doctors recommended by the public.

When they think of drug marketers, he said, they think of clearly identified salespeople who come calling or invite doctors to professional seminars to learn about a company's drugs.

On their advice, she invited doctors and administrators from several local hospital systems as well as community advocates to a meeting about the clinic.

The fliers invited doctors and any of their staff members to two-day seminars where for $1,150 they would learn to formulate anti-aging medications.

They hired a marketing consultant, started weekly support group meetings for infertile couples and invited doctors to dinners, including a wine-tasting dinner last year with a sommelier flown in from France.