By Gusty Tuesday 25 August 2015 anechoic effect Annals of Internal Medicine health care corruption medical journals Professionalism Good Health and The Real Dark Side of Health Care: Health Care Corruption. Elvonda The editors of the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine just stated they they were shocked, shocked to find out that physicians occasiona...
By Gusty Friday 26 June 2015 American Society of Clinical Oncology anechoic effect conflicts of interest health care prices institutional conflicts of interest medical societies You heard it here first Good Health and How Institutional Conflicts of Interest Exacerbate the Anechoic Effect - the Example of ASCO Fearing "Biting the Hand that Feeds You". Elvonda As we recently discussed ( here , here , here and here ), in May, 2015, the New England Journal of Medicine, arguably the world's forem...
By Gusty Thursday 25 June 2015 anechoic effect free speech Pittsburgh Post-Gazette University of Pittsburgh Medical Center UPMC Good Health and Childish, petty and vindictive: UPMC hospitals ban sale of Post-Gazette from their gift shops. Elvonda Here's a new angle on how a healthcare organization might react to unfavorable press: Ban the sale of the newspaper in question from the...
By Gusty Thursday 14 May 2015 AbbeVie Abbott anechoic effect corporatism Eli Lilly global health health care prices Pfizer PhRMA regulatory capture revolving doors US Trade Representative Good Health and All the President's Trade Negotiators - Revolving Doors, Regulatory Capture, and Health Care Corporate Friendly Trade Agreements. Elvonda This week's spectacle in Washington, DC was a nearly unanimous Democratic minority in the Senate blocking a proposal for expedited consi...
By Gusty Wednesday 8 April 2015 anechoic effect deception fraud impunity kickbacks legal settlements Mark Leavitt Medtronic Victor Dzau Good Health and Three More Settlements by Medtronic of Allegations of Deceptive Behavior, but No Umpire Says "You're Out". Elvonda Medtronic, the giant, previously US based device maker settled three lawsuits, all alleging deceptive practices, over three months in early ...
By Gusty Tuesday 7 April 2015 AAMC AHERF anechoic effect Good Health and Not with a bang but with a whimper. Elvonda This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but with a whimper -- T. S...
By Gusty Wednesday 1 April 2015 anechoic effect boards of trustees conflicts of interest Cooper Hospital/ UMC crime governance health care corruption hospital systems leadership Good Health and The Troubles at Cooper Continue, Lately Gruesomely, But Will Its Leadership and Governance Change This Time? - Part I: Historical Background. Elvonda Allegations of Murder-Suicide by a Hospital System CEO This will be a hard series of posts to write. It wa triggered by the latest, and perh...