It’s called “bribe hesitancy.” Very few are willing to bite the hand that’s feeding it. From Megan Redshaw at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
U.S. physicians received more than $12 billion in payments from the pharmaceutical and medical device industry over a 10-year period, according to a new analysis.
A research letter published on March 28 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the industry made over 85 million payments to more than 820,300 (57 percent) of eligible physicians across 39 specialties from 2013 to 2022. Nearly 94 percent of the payments were related to one or more marketed medical products.
Researchers examined data in the Open Payments database to determine what payments were made across different specialties and the medical products associated with the largest total payments. Data only included payments received for consulting, nonconsulting (such as speaker or faculty fees), travel, food, entertainment, education, gifts, grants, charitable contributions, and honoraria.
The Open Payments database is a federal transparency program that was established in 2013 out of concern that financial relationships between physicians and the industry were unduly influencing healthcare decision-making and costs.
The analysis found that payments varied considerably between specialties and among physicians of the same specialty. For example, the mean amount paid to the top 0.1 percent of physicians ranged from $194,933 for hospitalists to $4.8 million for orthopedic surgeons, while the payments to the median physicians ranged from zero to $2,339.
Dr. Feelgood fresh out of Marxist EDU should wear a NASCAR style jacket with Big Pharmakeia logos and bust into a spiel about a word from the sponsor.
If the good doctor tells me to shove a fireplace poker up my ear then I should do it!
After all they have a white coat and be all expert and stuff.
Can I have my only obey virtue signal lapel pin now?
Doctors in great majority betrayed their Hippocratic oath in the pandemic. The few who didn’t were ostracized and fired. Very few are humans many are instinct-driven automatons.
An the abysmal insidious malefic force ‘from beyond’ knows it and pushes for more such ‘people’
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan says: ~God loves people for their flaws. The more flaws you have the more he loves you”
So to the good Shepard loves his sheep because he can milk them he can fleece them he can roast their lambs for Easter and when they can’t do these services anymore they make a pretty good jerky.
That’s why I always thought that the lost little sheep was a smart goat who knew the true true!
@ Anon,
A House type MD with vintage clothes and long Rollie Fingers mustache literally saved my wretched hide…he is the greatest in my book and the ravishing brunette doctor who got me off meds.
The POC nurse with the actual hat and apron made up for the ones who were drawing out so much blood I felt weak as they thought it was wheel into the morgue time or the count to 10 about your pain level and we might give you something.
Fool became the wise and a curious childlike state is beloved by God.
It ended up being a blessing as I got some upgrades.
Thank You God.