(Please read the case carefully and help me; please do not paste an automatic answer; thank you)

Link pdf of Jennings: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wjOh9Xs31vXd7kHFmZhiC81xfxpelm2i/view?usp=sharing

Please consider the consequences of acting ethically or unethically. After carefully reading the supplemental ethics materials (Jennings handout), discuss fully the ethical issues related to this case. (1) Categorize the ethical dilemma(s), (2) examine the matter from other perspectives, (3) describe any possible rationalizations, and finally, (4) use at least one of the ethics models to resolve the situation.

The Case

A major US pharmaceutical company asks you, a medical doctor, to be a "consultant" for its new diabetes drug. It will pay you $20,000 per month for three years to speak about the drug, using its script, to selected doctor's groups two times a year for 45 minutes, and to be available to speak on the phone to the company on three occasions per year for no more than 20 minutes each. The drug has been tested for 18 months for effectiveness by the company on a small test group that is not fully representative of its target patient group. The company cherry-picked the study design and the most useful test data which supported its effectiveness and the F.D.A. approved the drug for sale. Other non-supportive or equivocal test data is not disclosed as allowed by law.

The company has ghost-written several articles which describe the drug as highly effective and has asked you to sign your name as author giving the appearance that an independent, respected doctor supports the research and wrote the articles. You read them, change a few words, and sign them. These are published in respected American medical journals, disclosing your association with the company just half the time they are published. Because you are a highly respected Key Opinion Leader in your medical specialty, what you say and write is a "gold standard" for other less-informed doctors to follow. This arrangement works to propel the drug's sales to record profits.