Bribed Docs, Us DOJ Closing In

Who Does Your Doctor Really Work For?

This acerbic bite out of orthopaedic integrity comes from time/cnn courtesy of Dr. Scott Haig. Even if you couldn't care less about hip replacements, or the surgeon's agenda in choosing them; Haig's fiery send up of ortho cutter's - "Why yes, of course we'll sell your product. Now where's the check?" - Will, ... keep you enthralled and grinning sly.

Here's Haig's opener.


"Early March was not a good time to break a bone. You might have had a difficult time finding someone to fix it, since thousands of orthopedists were otherwise occupied in San Francisco, at the 75th annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS).

The mood there wasn't entirely jubilant. The past year has been a tough one for the business of orthopedics, one in which it has taken a hard, public slap from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

The DOJ, you see, has discovered the "relationships" that so many orthopedic companies have established with orthopedic surgeons. Companies give money to doctors to test products, to help design or tout products and sometimes just to use a particular product (as in kickback). Orthopedists are hardly the only doctors paid by medical companies, but when the sheer amount of money being given to orthopedists came out of the shade into the sharp San Francisco sunshine last week, it did make quite a few of us blink."


If You think the DOJ has found a can of stink here; just wait till DOJ rips the lid off Psychiatry. Because you see; with Orthopaedic Surgery there's the possibility of real scientific proof existing that medical intervention Will improve a patient's life, unlike the oxymoronic behavioral-sciences bio-causative fraud of Psychiatry.


Thanks and a hat tip to the ever vigilant Sickmind Fraud at Psychwatch. If you're not checking psychwatch out, you're missing out.

And if you like Dr. Scott Haig's take here's another.

Attack of the Pharma Babes