Why do doctors choose a $2,000 drug over a $50 one?

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60. I'm not talking about pharmaceutical companies

They are big business, and big business, I would argue has a problem with ethics.

I'm talking about when a few individuals give a whole group a bad name.

If a democratic congressman took a bribe, we bend over backwards to see this as an aberration, an exception, a mistake.

If a republican did the same, we see that as evidence of systemic corruption in that party.

Many people see doctors as part of the privileged class, which they are really not. They have worked their asses off to get where they are. They weren't necessarily born into money. They are not wealthy in the sense of millionaire or billionaire money. Many people project their own fears and frustrations onto physicians-- I get that all the time in the ED. And if people do not get a clear cut diagnosis, they say that no one knows or no one is telling me what is wrong with me, with the tacit blame on the medical community.

The blanket biases against doctors, lawyers, police, etc is very frustrating. The blanket biases for certain groups is equally frustrating.