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Originally Posted by daepp
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.
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The headline doesn’t say what you claim it says. It is actually perfectly consistent with the quote from the Harvard researchers.