You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave - Duke and UNC Allegedly Agreed Not to Hire Each Other's Faculty

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You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave - Duke and UNC Allegedly Agreed Not to Hire Each Other's Faculty

Unknown 8/28/2015 Komentar

We have intermittently discussed the worsening plight of physicians trying to provide clinical care as employees of large organizations.  Such corporate physicians are likely to be squeezed between professional values...

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The Real Dark Side of Health Care: Health Care Corruption

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The Real Dark Side of Health Care: Health Care Corruption

Unknown 8/26/2015 Komentar

The editors of the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine just stated they they were shocked, shocked to find out that physicians occasionally express disrespect for patients when the patients cannot hear or see them. ...

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Once More with Feeling - Amgen Again Settles Allegations of Misbranding, But Why Bother?

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Once More with Feeling - Amgen Again Settles Allegations of Misbranding, But Why Bother?

Unknown 8/21/2015 Komentar

The Latest Settlement Biotechnology giant Amgen has just reached another settlement of allegations that it unfairly, deceptively or misleadingly marketed its drug. Per the Los Angeles Times,Amgen Inc. has agreed to pay $71...

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With 10 Health Care Executives on it Board, US Chamber of Commerce Defends Big Tobacco Abroad

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With 10 Health Care Executives on it Board, US Chamber of Commerce Defends Big Tobacco Abroad

Unknown 8/17/2015 Komentar

Tobacco, especially smoked in cigarettes, is generally recognized by health care professionals as having health hazards that greatly outweigh its benefits to society.  Therefore, most health care organizations discourage...

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The Latest Example of the Anechoic Effect - AllTrials US Initiative Launches to Deafening Media Silence

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The Latest Example of the Anechoic Effect - AllTrials US Initiative Launches to Deafening Media Silence

Unknown 8/11/2015 Komentar

Every now and then, someone tries to persuade me how much more open discussion of various kinds of recent unpleasantness in health care has become in the US. I admit there has been more media attention to certain issues,...

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Praluent, the Next Expensive "Game Changer," Blockbuster," "New Hope," - But Not Yet Shown to Benefit Patients

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Praluent, the Next Expensive "Game Changer," Blockbuster," "New Hope," - But Not Yet Shown to Benefit Patients

Unknown 8/06/2015 Komentar

Here we go again.  The same month that it approved Entresto (look here), the US Food and Drug Administration approved a new PCSK9 inhibitor cholesterol lowering agent, alirocumab, immediately marketed as the pricy Praluent...

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60% of the CEOs of America's "Great Health Systems" Have No Educational Background in Health Care

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60% of the CEOs of America's "Great Health Systems" Have No Educational Background in Health Care

Unknown 8/01/2015 Komentar

We have noted that US health care has been taken over by generic managers.  A recent article about the CEOs of purportedly some of America's best hospitals provides some quantitative data.A few days ago, Becker's Hospital...

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