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Whiskeytide

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51. Many MDs - most in fact...

Tue Nov 11, 2014, 10:16 AM

Nov 2014

Receive substantial kickbacks from pharma mfrs and outside testing labs. Some of these payments are legal, but many of them are not. When an MD becomes more dependent on that money than the revenue generated by the practice, he's as addicted to the drugs as his patient, just in a diff way. That's why you get prescriptions for drugs you don't really need. Gotta make the payment on the Benz.

Edit to add. I'm being a little hyperbolic- and I certainly don't mean most MDs. Just those that have allowed the money to cloud their judgment.

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