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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHas your doctor received drug or device money from 2016 to the present?
From Pro Publica - FASCINATING. My primary care doctor received $220 over that time. Gotta think about her ability to be objective... <sarcasm>
https://eur04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fprojects.propublica.org%2Fdocdollars%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C73703c3524354fb6cf8508d702e41cdb%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636981051070074746&sdata=iTDkLe%2FMx0S2mOcRT%2FI20ug%2B4WCT%2BV5KD3n%2Fc53qW0w%3D&reserved=0
How do people put that sarcasm thingey in their posts? And what is it called? I find myself using "thingey" more and more.
cp
(6,660 posts)Thank you.
3catwoman3
(24,051 posts)Click the three little dots to the right of the smiley holding the candle, and you'll find and a lot of others.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I checked mine and looks like he has benefited from a few meals or lunches over the years, but nothing else. Not a real problem with them picking up the lunch tab or bringing in a box of donuts for the staff here and there.
Quemado
(1,262 posts)When you click on the link, the page says to "use this tool to search for general payments (excluding research and ownership interests) made from August 2013 to December 2016" and it was last updated June 28, 2018.
Wounded Bear
(58,713 posts): sarcasm : (without the spaces)
k8conant
(3,030 posts)I looked some of our doctors.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)I wonder if these dollar values include all of the catered lunches that drug reps provide doctors offices. I'm here to tell you that it is quite common. I know some practices that set aside multiple times throughout the month for these "meetings."
LAS14
(13,783 posts)... amounts like $23 or $220 since 2016.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)My doctor gets a sammich damn near every day from someone.
I always ask her, "Who is buying lunch today?" and ask to stick around.
You know, if some vendor wanted to bring you lunch on a regular basis, why on earth would you say "no"?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Doctors have long gotten benefits for prescribing certain drugs. There have been stories published from the past, everything from drop dead gorgeous "drug company reps" visiting their offices to paid junkets. Past articles point out that Doctors with busy practices are often targeted by the drug company efforts because they write a lot of prescriptions.
dhill926
(16,358 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Has my town wrong for one thing.
For the main thing, I work for the IHS. I havent seen a drug rep in like forever.
Complete fucking bullshit
Ms. Toad
(34,092 posts)in a different town?
The amounts I'm finding for my doctors match with roughly what I know from other disclosures available to me - or, when disclosures are not available, from observed interactions.
(primary care doc - heavily courted by drug companies - a few thousand; 2 specialists at fancy hospital >$100,000 each)