Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
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Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors
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#2bribes - or payments?
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#3bribes - or payments?
In America it's all the same. Or you can call it 'lobbying' if you really want to dress it up.
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#5Reminds me of what Rostand said about murder: "Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god."
Sell one oxycontin and you're drug dealer; sell a million and you're a C level.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
In America it's all the same. Or you can call it 'lobbying' if you really want to dress it up.
Doctor's aren't public officials. So no, you wouldn't call it that.
Doctors have taken an oath and have a public responsibility. They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate) [malpractice].
So let's not quibble over semantics.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doctor's aren't public officials. So no, you wouldn't call it that.
Doctors have taken an oath and have a public responsibility. They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate) [malpractice]. So let's not quibble over semantics.
> They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate)
Malpractice is in many senses a reduced standard of negligence liability compared to that faced by the general public, since it turns on established professional practice in the field not objective reasonableness in the circumstances.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doctor's aren't public officials. So no, you wouldn't call it that.
Doctors have taken an oath and have a public responsibility. They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate) [malpractice]. So let's not quibble over semantics.
Believe it or not, this grew out of the threat of lawsuits if they DIDN'T prescribe opioids because they were ignoring the "5th vital sign" (pain).
The real culprits here are the corporations - they should be liable for paying for the treatment of the folks addicted to the drugs they pushed.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doctors have taken an oath and have a public responsibility. They are liable for bad medical behavior (particularly if deliberate) [malpractice]. So let's not quibble over semantics.
Believe it or not, this grew out of the threat of lawsuits if they DIDN'T prescribe opioids because they were ignoring the "5th vital sign" (pain). The real culprits here are the corporations - they should be liable for paying for the treatment of the folks addicted to the drugs they pushed.
Well if the root is the corporation, I think civil suits have proven ineffective at preventing such abuses.
I wonder if the answer may be criminal suits and a greater emphasis on whistleblowing. Most people I know would rat out their company's immoral/illegal behavior for a million dollars.
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#10Is this really news? John Oliver ran a piece on the topic and the industry's many other dubious practices over 2 years ago, and I'm quite sure he wasn't the first to try to raise awareness.