Physicians and the AMA are accusing retail clinics of having a conflict of interest:
The AMA and local physicians-group representatives add to their list of concerns what they view as an inherent conflict of interest: When an in-store clinic writes a prescription, it can be filled inside that store.“The concern is that patients may be prescribed medications that are unnecessary or more expensive than necessary, based on the interests of these clinics,” said Dr. Randy Wexler, who practices in Gahanna and is a board member of the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians.
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Uhh . . . and when a physician prescribes a test, it can often be performed in his/her office? Isn’t that a conflict of interest? Oh no, doctors, I forgot, doctors just prescribe tests because of defensive medicine and medmal suits . . .
What a load of bunk. This just verified everything I have said about the allopathic oligopolists doing everything that they can to ensure their stranglehold over the healthcare market. One could go over a laundry list of “conflict of interest” when it comes to the action of the allopathic community and perhaps one will as this thread becomes more populated.
~Criminallopath~
I second the Load of Bunk comment. Every hospital I have worked at has a pharmacy that one could fill their RX at after their ER visit. Talk about inflated prices. I would bet the Walmart RX’s are much less expensive than just about any hospitals.
I may be bunk, Crim, but if the CVS down the street can provide both medical services and pharmaceuticals, why can’t the physician?
In my state, it is illegal for a physician to dispense medications (with the exception of free samples). Yet CVS is doing it.
Can any knowledgeable responder explain Stark Law in regard to tests and treatments “done at the doctors’” office, to the ignorant majority?
Plenty derive conclusions about allopathic doctors’ “oligopoly” of related “markets” as if all doctors profit from these operations…
Ungrateful public
Oh the need of doctors to intimidate and even lie continues to amaze me. The Srark Act, oh enlightened anon 8.47, only applies to medicare/medicaid and only for certain “designated health services”–which is a limited list.
Doctors profiting from their own tests does present ethical issues–and physician smoke blowing simply reveals what greedy, evil people they are.
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