{"id":795,"date":"2008-03-22T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2008-03-22T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T21:00:00","slug":"new-focus-of-inquiry-into-bribes-doctors-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors &#8211; New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/22\/business\/22device.html?_r=1&amp;ref=business&amp;oref=slogin\">New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors &#8211; New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once companies begin to develop the devices, leading doctors are hired as consultants to help modify the implants and related hardware. When the products are finally brought to market, companies also hire many of the same opinion leaders to train other doctors and sales representatives how to use them.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Mr. Christie has had no problem finding large sums of money \u2014 in some cases, more than $1 million annually \u2014 flowing from companies to doctors who use their devices. But doctors say it is far too simplistic to conclude, as Mr. Christie claimed last fall, that \u201cmany orthopedic surgeons in this country made decisions predicated on how much money they could make \u2014 choosing which device to implant by going to the highest bidder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the most part, the hip and knee joints sold by the major companies are similar in performance, but getting surgeons to switch is a lot more difficult than persuading an internist to prescribe a prescription drug rather than aspirin.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors &#8211; New York Times: &#8220;Once companies begin to develop the devices, leading doctors are hired as consultants to help modify the implants and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Focus of Inquiry Into Bribes: Doctors &#8211; New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pharmaceutical-industry","category-physician-income"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}