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Category Archives: True confessions
What doctors should do – but don’t – when their colleagues are “significantly impaired or incompetent to practice medicine”
Researchers say that although the majority of physicians believe that their medical colleagues who are ‘significantly impaired or incompetent to practice medicine’ should be reported, in reality over 1/3 actually chose to sit by and do nothing even when they admitted “direct personal knowledge” of such incompetence. Continue reading
50 surprising products you use every day that are made from petroleum
If you’re wearing underwear with a stretchy waistband, lip gloss, or chewing a stick of gum, you’re surrounded by petroleum products. Continue reading
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Harvard cozies up with Big Pharma
Why did this Harvard med school prof try to hide his $1.6 million payments from the drug company whose anti-psychotic drug he’d been prescribing to children? Continue reading
Lessons from Toyota for the Pope
How consumer product recalls like the Toyota crisis could educate the old guy in Rome. Continue reading
