Friday, December 17, 2010

Ends and Means, Means and Ends

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Especially at this time of year, when people are so crazed by the spirit of love and charity that they will get into fistfights over parking...
Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Who Writes Medical Textbooks? You Might be Surprised.

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Last week, I wrote a post about dental products manufacturers underwriting articles, and even entire issues, in dental practice journals. T...
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Full Disclosure is Better than Full-Body Scans

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Pretend, for a moment, that you are a dentist. If you read an article in the Journal of the American Dental Association that tells you that...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Illegal vs Unethical vs Stupid

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Imagine this situation: you have a conflict with your boss. It's not a huge deal, but it's been simmering away for a while, and you...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Is $750 Million Enough to Get Your Attention?

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In the largest criminal (and civil) payment for the manufacture of adulterated drugs, GlaxoSmithKline yesterday agreed to pay $750 million t...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

My Back Hurts -- Pass Me One of Your Vicodins Please

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If you're taking illegal drugs at work, and test positive on a random drug test, you'll be fired. What if you're taking prescrib...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Fool Me Once...

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I'm not a health-care industry analyst, so why am I writing about Johnson & Johnson for the fourth time this year? It's to say, ...