How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar

How the System is Rigged - Johnson and Johnson Board Member Pretends to be Independent Brookings Institution Scholar

By Unknown at 12:39 PM

Fears that "the system is rigged" may cause the lack of trust marring this year's political season. These fears are not basele...

Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly

Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly

By Unknown at 6:42 AM

Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executiv...

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

Academic Medical Leaders as Directors of For-Profit Health Care Corporations: the Prevalence of This "New Species" of Conflict of Interest Documented in the BMJ

By Unknown at 12:39 PM

The important conflicts of interest generated when academic health care leaders also serve on the boards of directors of for-profit health ...

How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You"

How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You"

By Unknown at 12:42 PM

As we recently discussed ( here , here , here and here ), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's forem...

More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

More Barbarians at the Gates: Private Equity Puts Primary Care in Play

By Unknown at 7:24 AM

There are still some idealistic physicians who enter primary care practice as a calling. The usual informal definition of primary care is ca...