I’d imagine that docs are well incentivized to prescribe certain profitable, high-profile drugs.
If anyone knows the details of this, please tell.
US med schools, I’ve heard, are funded by Big Pharma, so of course doctors want to prescribe drugs for everything, not really their fault, they just don’t know better. In the case of weight-loss drugs, mass stupidity going on. Whatever happened to diet and exercise?
My MD went to med school in Nigeria, didn’t push vax, quite the opposite. And prescribes 10 nutritional supplements for me including one gram of Vitamin C, which I was taking for the last 40 years anyway, long before I met him. We both trust my immune system.
And at the expense of the diabetics that need this drug. Those with diabetes are getting screwed by the soccer moms creating shortages of drugs developed for them.
“I’d imagine that docs are well incentivized to prescribe certain profitable, high-profile drugs.”
It’s very real. I have too many personal, familial, and friends’ examples to tell. I’d be here typing for an hour.
Docs aren’t just incentivized to push drugs.
They’re incentivized for compliant patients.
And patient compliance is ever so much easier to track since the advent of electronic medical records.
Here’s an interesting test for this.
Patient dumping used to be illegal.
Since the advent of EMRs, why don’t we see what the rate of patients being discharged from practices, which is permitted for non-compliance, has been doing...