When will people figure out that doctors severely lack ethics?

I wish you’d put this on the OT so some of the sanctimonious doctors would respond. Scruffy claims there’s no such thing as kickbacks.

The problem I have is that many doctors - especially those who post here - act like their knowledge is infallible and that the laity are inept. That doctors are above the common person in ethics, capability, and reason.

There was a thread not too long ago where Scruffy in particular scoffed at the notion that any doctor could be getting kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. To suggest otherwise is not understand how the business works. Yet here is a story showing that doctors can and do accept kickbacks without regard to the law.

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Evidently this shite is a lot more widespread than people would like to believe

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I'm not discounting that, just pointing out that it's not legal.

I just always assume that doctors get kickbacks for presrcibing medicine, because rarely, if ever, do you go to the doc and not walk out with some type of meds.

With that, I rarely fill prescriptions when prescribed, unless I really feel like I need it.

Fortunately, I don't get sick too often, so I don't use meds.

Most meds are needed, but the medical folks don't make money unless meds are taken.

A coworker of my wife worked with Dr Death.

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I'm listening to a podcast now called Dr. Death about a neurosurgeon in Dallas who was essentially murdering patients. Baylor Medical essentially covered it up. Quite terrifying.

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Fake news. Baylor would never engage in a cover-up.

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but patient “advocates” that worked for the company and helped with prior authorizations.

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But they weren't really patient advocates

They're frauds pretending to be patient advocates

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I just always assume that doctors get kickbacks for presrcibing medicine, because rarely, if ever, do you go to the doc and not walk out with some type of meds.

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Are the doctors prescribing meds because they're getting kickbacks? Or are they prescribing meds because they assume that it's what the patient (consumer) wants?

This is especially true for conditions that can be usually helped primarily with diet/exercise (high blood pressure, etc...). I think they either assume, or it's been there experience, that they can't just tell a patient to fix it on their own and get positive results.

My gut feel is that if kickbacks where extremely pervasive in the medical industry, we would see a TON more weight loss drugs being prescribed.

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Baylor would never engage in a cover-up.

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It wasn't exactly a cover up...but let's just say that their way of addressing it was "anemic". Basically, they stopped short of reporting him to the federal registry that would have been the 1st thing to pop up on the screen of any prospective new employer. Since he wasn't on that list, he was able to spread his mayhem around to other hospitals/clinics.

They also mentioned that when the TX medical board got around to addressing it, they fined Baylor $100K...and then 1 year later, they quietly dismissed the fine...WTF