Thursday, September 01, 2011  Of Pens and Payoffs  It's the
ultimate irony to this casual observer.   Bad doctors.   Dirty.
Rotten. Scoundrels. All.   Around here, we call this "The
Chicago Way:"  –Jim Malone, "The Untouchables"  It's just a
little money for a few pens.     Anonymous said...  There's more
and more of this in DC: in misguided efforts to cut spending,
regulatory agencies are being funded by "assessments" on those
they regulate.  Not good.  Keith said...  It's OK for
politicians to accept campaign donations and claim they are not
influenced by those donations. It is OK for these same
politicians to go on junkets and attend dinners from lobbying
firms without concern that our politicians will be unduly
influenced. It is OK for a financial consultant to reccommend
you to someone for advice and take a cut (kickback?) for this
advice. But is not OK for a doctor to accept a pen from a
pharmaceutical rep!?  Of course, we know who writes the rules,
so it is easy to see why practices that are deemed ill