I guess I shouldn't expect too much from USA Today, but it seems like pretty poor reporting to tell us that five people in the study died from side effects, but not say how many people were in the study. It's kind of important.
Edit: Per JAMA, there were 1736 people in the study, 860 of whom received the drug, 5 of whom died from brain injuries caused by the drug either during or following the trial. One patient in the placebo group died from treatment related injures.
Why do these fuckers get to just shove literally anything out there and only pull it once a regulatory body forces it out??? (BTW thanks Supreme Court for neutering said regulatory body 🖕)
WHY aren’t we forcing all this shit to be proven safe first
They can do whatever they want until it's proven harmful. Time after time they've done internal studies showing the shit is toxic and they bury it.
Never any criminals charges, maybe some financial compensation after long court battle but never more than they profit.
Capitalism only works by externalizing these costs. They want you to believe, need you to believe it's not a zero sum game but it's not. It's just these externalities.
Monetary policy doesn't get to defy the laws of the universe, profit doesn't come from the ether.
We pay with our health and our lives.
And it's never acceptable to say this is not a good system, we have to propose an immediate alternative or we're pigeonholed as a communist or whatever the capitalist limited mind is stuck on. Like a Christian assuming one either worships Christ or Satan because it's unfathomable to choose neither. We are living through a capitalist inquisition.
This article is infuriating. Ok, so Medicare paid hospitals $106k-182k to train doctors in 2015… and as someone who graduated from residency in 2014, we were making $40k-55k. So the hospitals were pocketing 60-75% of the payments, and doctors are supposed to feel grateful?
The solution is obvious: if you want psychiatrists to take Medicare, pay them. CMS has already shifted payments toward primary care because they know it’s necessary, but are dragging ass on psychiatry. They could easily fix the shortage of psychiatric services for low income patients by actually incentivizing it, if they actually wanted to.
Replace the “social contract” with an actual contract and you’ll see results.
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