The impact that contract research has on the professional identity of physicians are entrepreneurial agent and pharmaceutical emissary. Entrepreneurial agents peak the organizational and business exploit that physicians acquire through their connection with pharmaceutical industries. Pharmaceutical emissary is when physicians change their role from being care givers to a patient and lean more toward a clinical trial being tested on a patient (Fisher 2009). When you are a care giver you care about the patient and ensure that patient is okay and health is in good standing. When you are a researcher, the focus is just focusing on receiving results for a trial.
