Our Limitless Capacity For Self-Deception

I want to share with my readers a recent post and accompanying comment published on CardioExchange. The original post is by Eric Lindley, a cardiology fellow at the University of Utah: Journal X: Not so Subtle Marketing Messages I was the rare resident who thought that conflict of interest issues in medicine were a bit overblown. I…

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Should Physicians Be Business Partners With Medical Device Salesmen?

Should a Florida cardiologist co-own a business running frozen yogurt shops with a medical device salesman? That’s the question raised by reporter John Dorschner in a story posted by the Miami Herald yesterday:   “Mark Sabbota, a Hollywood cardiologist, regularly implants $5,000 pacemakers in patients at Memorial hospitals in South Broward — generating, last year alone,…

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