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A Drumbeat on Profit Takers

Date: March 19, 2012

Author: Dr. Abigail Zuger, M.D.

QUOTE: Their joint crusade, stated repeatedly in editorials for the journal and since expanded in books and dozens of articles in the lay press, is against for-profit medicine, especially its ancillary profit centers of commercial insurance and drug manufacture — in Dr. Relman’s words, “the people who are making a zillion bucks out of the commercial exploitation of medicine.”

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Key People:

• Prof. Marcia Angell M.D.
• Prof. Jerome Kassirer MD
• Dr. Howard Brody
• Dr. Peter D. Kramer
• Dr. Jeffrey M. Drazen M.D.
• Charles Ornstein
• Prof. Richard A. Epstein Esq.
• Dr. Arnold S. Relman
• Dr. Richard A. Friedman

Key Organizations:

• Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ)
• Massachusetts Medical Society
• Mayo Clinic
• New York Times Company

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          • Disclosure/Conflict of Interest (Organizational)
  • Motivation/Rewards/Punishments
    • Influence / Persuasion / Bribery

• Health & Medicine
  • Doctors
  • Health Care Business
    • Pharmaceutical / Drug / Biotech
  • Mental Health / Mental Illness / Therapy
    • Psychology/Psychiatry

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

• Worldwide

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