Richard Enos – In a very thorough and revealing analysis of statistical industry payment data, ProPublica disclosed that more than 2,500 physicians have received at least half a million dollars apiece from drugmakers and medical device companies in the past five years alone, while more than 700 of those doctors received at least $1 million, and that doesn’t include money for research or royalties from inventions.
In their article, the authors note that their previous analysis in 2013, which found out that 1 doctor had made $1 million and 21 doctors had made over $500,000 for the same reasons, was expected to be a wake-up call for more effective scrutiny, oversight, and challenges to these payments. Instead, these types of payments have become much more commonplace. Continue reading
Joseph P Farrell – When I saw this article that was passed along by Mr. R.M., I knew instantly that I would be blogging about it. And my reasons for doing so are quite simple. The strange case of mysteriously dead doctors has been one of those topics I’ve tried to follow on this website over the years, along with the case of the mysteriously dead bankers.