Medicine, Money, and Morals : Physicians' Conflicts of Interest

Medicine, Money and Morals explores physicians' financial conflicts of interest. These conflicts are described and explained with details of how they have changed overtime and how professionals and society have addressed them in the past. Parallels are drawn with conflicts of interest in other professions including lawyers, public officials, and financial advisors. It is shown that these problems are getting worse and how they affect patients, society in general, and the doctors themselves. Based on his own experience as a health lawyer, along with investigative reporting and a careful study of health ethics, law and policy, the author reveals the full dimensions of the problem. This controversial book will be of interest to all physicians, public health officials, and medical ethicists as well as patients themselves. become a health policy issue. This book explains what these conflicts of interest are, how they have changed over the past century, what the organized medical profession has done about them in the past and how these problems are dealt with now by physicians and society. It also shows how such problems are dealt with in other fields and what options society has in trying to address these issues in the future.