I am so angry I am shaking,

One of my ER colleagues sees a medicaid patient, and he launches into that old diatribe about no one pulling their weight anymore, today's youth's sense of entitlement...blah blah blah. He thinks all people on welfare are abusing the system because we tend to see that couple percent that do in fact abuse the system.

"So much for the hippocratic oath" says to me the same thing as declaring all medicaid recipients "Welfare Queens". Or calling all cops abusive assholes because of the OWS violence by some. Or calling all republicans moronic cretins....oh wait, forget that one.

These threads remind me that people have some issues with certain institutions, perhaps rightly so on some levels, but I think it's important to remember that DU has a very big umbrella, and I imagine I am not the only doctor to feel I belong here. At least most of the time.

and was, by implication, saying that doctors do take the Hippocratic Oath very seriously and that this particular doctor betrayed his profession by violating it.

Admittedly I'm reading a lot into just a few words--but that's how I responded to that post.

I misinterpreted your statements about the worth of the hippocratic oath, the charge of doctors having inflated egos and being made into demi-gods, and the wondering about what research is legitimate. I thought you were generalizing, rather than talking about this specific thing.

I will say, that the days of inflated egos and demi-goddery is really quite over; has been for about 2 decades. That superior attitude is "old school" and those physicians are at retirement age or already retired. I think public perception/consciousness has lagged in this regard.

I would also say, that although physician groups (i.e AMA) are vulnerable to lobbying, most of us are not in anyone's pocket, not beholden to special interests, and really are fairly simple people.

In my residency years, our residency director halted drug company lunches due to the potential for unfair influence. It was unnecessary, though. None of us took these reps seriously. We were data and evidence driven then as now, and wouldn't let a free piece of pizza or a pen convince us to use something that was not appropriate or had weak data to support an indication.

I suppose it's human to be vulnerable and to react in anger to a story such as this, but it's still not valid to lump the innocent with the guilty.

I lost two family members to cancer 10 and 12 years ago. We did a lot of researching and hung on to every ray of hope.

Sounds to me like there should be a big investigation of Dr. Potti and Duke University should face charges.

No doubt he was a big NIH grantee too. So much crap about the grant process in biomedical research, i can't even begin to go into it.

it's not always so easy or quick to figure out if something is fraudulent.

It's pretty interesting (and appalling).

http://www.economist.com/node/21528593

TYY

A University of Connecticut researcher known for his work on red wine's benefits to cardiovascular health falsified his data in more than 100 instances, university officials said Wednesday.

University officials said nearly a dozen scientific journals are being warned of the potential problems after publishing his studies in recent years. The researcher, Dipak Das, did some studies of resveratrol, an ingredient in red wine that has shown potential for promoting health.



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/11/MNIJ1MO400.DTL#ixzz1mHZXnSXD

'uh,..sorry about that, Chief'

I have known an oncologist a cousin married for a long time. I've always wondered how he told a patient 'that's it', but no doubt that's part of the job

Imagine being the one to tell a family, 'that's it, the doctor is a scammer, how were we supposed to know he wasnt really a rhodes scholar, that could have added 20 minutes to the hiring process'

In IT, I was told to do double verify on resumes/tech screens under certain circumstances, which i will not mention here

this is very sad

Inflated egos are just as much a problem.

so that she never saw her granddaughter. This hurts.

He/she only offered crap.

...as we looked for any treatment that held out a reasonable possibility of helping, and the odds got longer and longer.

These bastards will prey on people like my parents, and in the end give them back their children in a pine box.

I hope they jail the SOB until he dies ... of cancer.

South Carolina.