Volume 204, Issue 1: 11 January, 2016. Professor Erwin Loh is Chief Medical Officer at Monash Health in Melbourne, and Dr Jessica Dean is a former president of the Australian Medical Students' Association and an intern at Monash Health. They discuss the dilemmas inherent in pharmaceutical companies' presence in the hospital setting and alternatives to pharma sponsorship. To accompany their For debate released online 11 January, 2016. With MJA News and Online Editor, Cate Swannell. Available as a video here.