Archives of Investigations and Editorials

Doctors are required to disclosed any conflicts including financial conflicts when publishing studies. But journals have varying criteria for disclosures and there is no enforcement for lack of disclosures. You can find articles published around the same time period, where the same doctors where have no disclosures while others have more extensive disclosures. Journal editorial…

The United States government subsidies the corporate medical complex. Many hospitals and insurance companies are not for profit so they don’t pay taxes. Yet these same hospitals send bills to debt collectors. Medical debt is the leading cause of personal bankruptcy.

Harvard Business Review article estimates 95% of the hires in healthcare from 1990-2021 are non doctors with 10 of 16 non doctors work solely in non clinical roles such as administrative, receptionist, or clerk roles. You may think then these workers improve healthcare productivity or quality. However, productivity and quality hasn’t significantly increased. (https://hbr.org/2013/09/the-downside-of-health-care-job-growth) So…

Competition in the medical device field is limited with relatively small number of companies. Therefore, when a company markets new medical device, it signals to the existing competitors intent on price competition. If the new medical device is priced similar to existing devices, the company is signaling it does not desire price competition. In general,…