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Health Care Revolving Door Roundup

Posted by | 12:39 PM
Increasingly, the regulatory and law enforcement functions of the US government in the health care sphere seem to be blending with the manag...

Why Do People Think US Health Care is Corrupt? - The Examples of Amgen, Mallinckrodt Settling Charges of Giving Kickbacks to Doctors to Induce them to Prescribe Their Products, While No Individual Suffers Negative Consequences

Posted by | 12:18 PM
We recently posted a discussion of the results of Transparency International's 2013 corruption barometer , focusing on the US results.  ...

Pharmaceutical Industry "'Mobilised' an Army of Patient Groups to Lobby Against" Improving Clinical Research Integrity

Posted by | 6:07 PM
I had guessed that this sort of thing was going on all the time, but being kept very well hidden.  Now we have some more evidence. An artic...

43% Believe that US Health Care is Corrupt, 64% that Government is Run by a Few Big Interests, Media Shrug

Posted by | 8:53 AM
We have noted  (most recently here ),  that health care corruption, particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries l...

Hospital Retaliation Against Outspoken Physician Reaches New Levels - La Cosa Nostra Levels, That Is

Posted by | 6:27 AM
Physicians, take note: The Advisory Board Company Feb. 14, 2013   Hospital Framed Physician; Planted a Gun A jury has ordered a California h...

Why Did the Global Fund Fire its Inspector General?

Posted by | 12:55 PM
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria continues to struggle with the issue of health care corruption, an issue we noted h...

Majority of the Public Wants Politicians Who Will Root Out Corporate Corruption

Posted by | 1:24 PM
Here is a story that makes me unusually optimistic, at least about the wisdom of the people at large. Reuters reported on a new poll,   With...

Pfizer's Pforeign Pfiasco

Posted by | 10:32 AM
Quelle surprise.  Giant international pharmaceutical company Pfizer managed to go for nearly 10 months without announcing a major legal sett...

Needed: A Webcast on Disruptive and Criminal Hospital Executives

Posted by | 8:57 AM
I received this, unsolicited, via email: Webcast:  Managing Disruptive Docs in a New Era of Hospital-Physician Relations If you haven't ...

Quantitating the Corruption of Finance Leadership (Who May Overlap with Health Care Leadership)

Posted by | 1:46 PM
The bad leadership in health care that we frequently discuss now appears to exist in a context of an increasingly corrupt society.  In parti...

"More Marketing Than Science" - An Anonymous Confession About Deceptive Marketing Published in the British Medical Journal

Posted by | 9:41 AM
The British Medical Journal just published an anonymous article by a pharmaceutical company insider that explained once again how pharmaceut...

Dartmouth's Governance and Wall Street

Posted by | 1:18 PM
While the money spent on health care in the US continues to increase, care becomes less accessible and its quality becomes more dubious.  Mo...