Didn’t think some doctors are conflicted? Think again.

Documents gathered for a lawsuit at the Federal District Court in Boston showed that the "profits that doctors could make by prescribing drugs went from a minor source of income to the major driver of incomes for oncologists." In fact. a "Bristol-Myers document from 2001 shows that oncologists made about 65 percent of their revenue, and a similar percentage of their net income, on drug profits." (New York Times)

Can you believe this?

Doctors are being enticed by the pharmaceutical companies to prescribe their drugs. In fact, "industry documents that have emerged in a federal civil lawsuit in Boston show that big pharmaceutical companies sometimes calculated to the penny the profits that doctors could make from their drugs. Sales representatives shared those profit estimates with doctors and their staffs."

This is just one more area in where the healthcare system (and the doctors we are supposed to trust) has failed us.