From related stories on TFA page:
> Doctors received approximately $12.1 billion from drug and device makers between 2013–2022, study reveals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-doctors-approximately...
> Doctors received approximately $12.1 billion from drug and device makers between 2013–2022, study reveals
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-doctors-approximately...
A Google search says the US has 1 million doctors, so $12B over 10 years is $12k/doctor/year on average - nice, but not wow...
The linked article did actually have something useful to say on a per-doctor basis:"The analysis showed that more than half of physicians received at least one payment, and roughly 94% of payments were associated with one or more marketed medical products. A small percentage of physicians received the largest amounts, often exceeding $1 million".
So: nice but small for most doctors, rather (too?) large for a small percentage.
That is a ton of money, imagine how much you would do if you get an extra months of salary to do it? And they get that level of an offer every year...
A month of salary is a very large bribe for anyone.
But this can include things all the way from doctor getting $250 for spending 60 min consulting for a company (i.e. answering questions about how they treat a disease, what they look for in a new drug) to a doctor leading multiple speaking engagements throughout the year and making tens of thousands.