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2003/1/21 [Health] UID:27172 Activity:high |
1/21 Anybody in favor of doctors providing written disclosures of their financial dealings with drug companies? If a doctor is peddling a particular drug to patients, he has to tell them that he owns stock in the company, for example. Or if the drug maker paid for him and his family's cruise "seminar" on a particular disease. \_ Yes, absolutely. I don't see how patients wouldn't want to know that information. \_ and here lies the problem. 99% of the people won't ask their doctor for such info. Chances are you don't even know if your doctor graduated last of his class. And AMA is against all such disclosures. We need a federal or state law. \_ Just let the free market handle the problem. Bad doctors will kill all their patients, then they will have to switch careers. Why do you want to get the government involved? \_ Well played. \_ Not really. The fact is that no matter how much info is available most people won't ask for it, wouldn't know how to judge it, have no baseline for it, and are lucky to find a doctor still taking new patients in the first place. Go ahead, make a new law. New laws about disclosing this stuff won't help anyone except the lawyers and politicians and make some new paper pushers a job. \_ Especially the ambulance-chasing laywers. \_ How about the insurance-money chasing doctors? Let real ok? doctors are in business for the money. The AMA has brainwashed you into thinking that MDs are altruistic angels from God. They're not. Doctors don't like HMOs because they get paid LESS Than PPOs. The more tests they run and the more drugs they prescribe, the more money they make. \_ How do you tell the difference between accepting a "cruise" vs. getting free samples of OTC medicine? |
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