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A professor of medicine is paid $2,000 to hawk an expensive drug at dinner and has an unwritten, but well known, quid pro quo arrangement with that pharmaceutical company to prescribe their drug as part of this well understood agreement. Some of these paid speakers will prescribe a drug that will ultimately cost the...
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I‘m sitting down one night reviewing the credentials of a physician I know to be a duplicitous character who was just arrested for allegedly selling prescription pain medications, opiates, to any drug seeker who could pay him. He was well known to doctors and hospital administrators to be a meretricious fellow and yet, if...
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“Put your phone on top of my car!” You might expect to hear this from a criminal who was just making sure that no one could listen in to his private conversation, and in this case, you would be right. But this was no ordinary drug deal or covert mob transaction. Instead it was...
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Statins, the prescription drugs that reduce your levels of potentially harmful particles of cholesterol, most notably the low density lipoprotein, or LDL (with brand names such as Zocor, Pravachol, Lipitor, and Crestor), have been shown in multiple scientific studies to reduce heart attacks and save lives in patients with known vascular disease and likely,...
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Ok, I’m talking about Florida and not Kansas and perhaps I could have called this “Alligators, Sharks, and Cardiologists, Oh My,” but I needed to get someone’s attention, especially since I haven’t been able to get the attention of my patients who visit Florida every winter. And while I don’t want anyone to mistake...
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The practice of “Don’t worry about it your insurance will pay for it” is costing all of us in higher premiums and reduced salaries (if the cost of healthcare to your employer goes up it will eventually affect your compensation in other areas). And, because millions are on government administered healthcare, the practice is...
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I remember it quite clearly. When it hit me, it was as sharp and as sudden as a bullet from a gun. Just a day before I had noticed that my urine looked a bit amber and now I had this sudden, sharp pain in my flank: “You fool,” I told myself, “you have...
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American-style free market healthcare can often leave consumers confused. If you are a typical denizen of the U.S. you have surely been exposed to thousands of television and internet ads by big pharmaceutical companies promoting products that do everything from thinning blood to improving erections. Currently only the United States and New Zealand allow...
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Two years ago The New England Journal of Medicine, likely the most prestigious journal in all of medicine, published a study, Testosterone in Older Men or TOM trial, that showed the dangerous effects of testosterone in men over the age of 65 years of age. The results, so dramatic, with cardiovascular event rates TEN...
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