Posted by Admin | 2:39 PM

The march of legal settlements made by big health care organizations has resumed with a bang.  As reported in most major media outlets, gian...

Labels: crime, deception, impunity, Johnson and Johnson, kickbacks, legal settlements, marketing

Posted by Admin | 2:10 PM

We have discussed, most recently here , how marketers of health care goods and services use deception and psychological manipulation to sel...

Labels: deception, marketing, pharmaceuticals

Posted by Admin | 5:33 PM

When clinicians are told to promote a technology in no uncertain terms, that puts a chilling effect on critical thinking and discourse.  In ...

Labels: deception, EPIC, healthcare IT difficulties, healthcare IT exceptionalism, intimidation, marketing, sham peer review, University of Arizona Health Network

Posted by Admin | 11:55 AM

Evidence-based medicine proposes patient care decisions based on the best evidence from critically reviewed clinical research, knowledge of...

Labels: conflicts of interest, deception, evidence-based medicine, judgment and decision psychology, key opinion leaders, logical fallacies, marketing

Posted by Admin | 1:12 PM

The world's largest research based pharmaceutical company was in court again, as reported by the New York Times,  The drug maker Pfizer...

Labels: crime, impunity, legal settlements, marketing, Pfizer, whistle-blowers, Wyeth

Posted by Admin | 9:20 AM

Evidence has been seeping into public view about the extent physicians who sign up to take care of patients as corporate employees give up ...

Labels: confidentiality clause, contracts, corporate physician, deception, health care ethics, marketing, mission-hostile management, whistle-blowers

Posted by Admin | 9:29 AM

Pro Publica has updated their database of payments by pharmaceutical payments to physicians and organizations.  It now has data from 15 comp...

Labels: conflicts of interest, key opinion leaders, logical fallacies, marketing, pharmaceuticals, stealth marketing