Comments on: Retail clinics and conflicts of interest http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:50:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77482 Anonymous Tue, 10 Jul 2007 19:44:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77482 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.<br/><br/>Doctors profiting from their own tests does present ethical issues--and physician smoke blowing simply reveals what greedy, evil people they are. 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77444 Anonymous Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:47:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77444 Can any knowledgeable responder explain Stark Law in regard to tests and treatments "done at the doctors'" office, to the ignorant majority?<br/>Plenty derive conclusions about allopathic doctors' "oligopoly" of related "markets" as if all doctors profit from these operations...<br/><br/>Ungrateful public 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

]]> By: Rich, MD http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77430 Rich, MD Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:26:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77430 I may be bunk, Crim, but if the CVS down the street can provide both medical services and pharmaceuticals, why can't the physician?<br/><br/>In my state, it is illegal for a physician to dispense medications (with the exception of free samples). Yet CVS is doing it. 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.

]]> By: ERMurse http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77402 ERMurse Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:14:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77402 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 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.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77398 Anonymous Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77398 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.<br/><br/>~Criminallopath~ 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~

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-77393 Anonymous Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:58:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/07/retail-clinics-and-conflicts-of-interest.html#comment-77393 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 . . . 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 . . .

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