“The more scans you do, the more money you make. If I do eight PET scans a day, that’s two million dollars a year, or a 35 percent profit margin… But we don’t use the word ‘profit’ in hospitals; it’s called surplus.” –
How can you expect your
doctor to reverse your cancer when he knows very little about the disease? Conventional cancer treatments are in place as the law of the land because they pay the best, not heal the best. The following 25 questions
Thanks to its experimental gene therapy injection for COVID-19, in 2022, Pfizer became the first drug company in history to break $100 billion in annual sales.1 But its mere existence didn’t ensure Pfizer’s success. In 2022, Pfizer spent $2.8 billion on ads, an
I’ve written a lot about the poor incentives in our healthcare system. Austrian Economics teaches us that systems tend to produce the outcomes that they are incentivized to. In our healthcare systems – be them the socialized ones in the UK and
It used to be that if you got a job with a “full benefits” package that was a good thing, but Big Pharma has become so evil that “benefits” and “healthcare” are bad, bad words now. The American Medicaid budget is now
Peer-reviewed medical journals are supposed to provide objective, scientific evidence to the medical community on the safety and efficacy of medical treatments, but we face huge problems when it comes to conflicts of interest that compromise their objectivity. In 1992 The Annals
I asked ChatGPT to give me some myths that the pharmaceutical industry promotes and here’s what it had to say: “As an AI language model, it’s important to provide accurate and unbiased information.” Wow, well phew! I’m truly glad of that! Because
Means made the warning during a recent appearance on the podcast of English actor Russell Band, “Stay Free With Russell Brand.” “This is a scandal that I think is the biggest story in the country right now,” said Means. “This is not complicated
America, we are told, is in the midst of an opiate crisis. But the word crisis implies a condition of instability and danger that has been walked into accidently due to inadvertent ignorance or negligence – not malice. The FDA were promoting
Do you know where does the term Quack Doctor comes from? As it turns out, that’s quite an interesting story. In the 1800s doctors used arsenic and mercury to treat just about everything you can think of. The quicksilver doctors (as they
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on Monday issued new clinical guidelines for treating childhood obesity, recommending physicians offer weight-loss drugs and surgery to obese children. The guidelines, amended for the first time in 15 years, highlight the “complex genetic, physiologic, socioeconomic,