My question is: do medical specialists from general physician on up,
receive monetary incentive to prescribe drugs?
If so, this practice should be immediately terminated.
No, but the drug companies would do this if it were legal.
Pharmaceutical companies fund, in part, US medical schools. So upcoming MDs learn a lot about all the drugs they push,
My MD came from Nigeria, and went to med school there. Did his residence in the US, of course, but he was already not a drug pusher. I take one pharmaceutical drug and ten nutritional supplements. He prescribes those supplements after looking them up on WebMD to be sure they have value. So I take one drug and 12 supplements, all on my “extended prescription” list. All deductible meds.