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1 " ..., like the pharmaceutical industry's hypocrisy. They want people to think their motivation is for the public good when they are, in fact, poster boys for capitalism run amok.""You mean how they justify their out-of-the-ballpark prices supposedly because of how much money they have to spend on research.""The reality is that they spend more money on advertising prescription drugs directly to the public than they spend on research. And that doesn't even include the money they spend on lobbyists and politicians. "
― Robin Cook , Host
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3 " A lot of hospitals, including this one, are owned by for-profit companies. Even the so-called nonprofit hospitals are money mills in disguise. That means there's a built-in conflict of interest situation to avoid publicizing such statistics (hospital mistakes), like so many things in health care. Hospitals don't want to talk about their shortcomings. We fledgling medical students are still under the delusion that medicine is a calling whereas, if truth be told, it is a business, a big business, and not a fair business from the public's perspective. Most everybody is mainly out to make a buck. "
