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Originally Posted by kach22i
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EXTREMELY MISLEADING. Incredible (as in not-credible) is correct!
The headline states the doctors are being paid to prescribe more; the article states they're being paid to speak. That's a huge difference.
And the authors of the study they cited (Harvard researchers), ..."said it's not clear whether the payments encourage doctors to prescribe a company's drug or whether pharmaceutical companies seek out and reward doctors who are already high prescribers."
Boom - right there. They couldn't make a link.
Just one more non-news story from CNN. Clearly they want to make a point, but the study they cite doesn't make that point.
More feelings-based writing,, designed to tug at the hear strings: "CNN spoke with two women who've struggled with opioid addiction, and they described the sense of betrayal they felt when they learned that their doctors had received large sums of money from the manufacturers of the drugs that had created such havoc in their lives." Wow -
two whole women felt
betrayed. Would you look at that. That's some hard hitting journalism there.