Friday, January 2, 2009

conflicts of interest and ethics

In regards to the housing bubble ...

“That Wall Street has gone down because of this is justice,” he says. “They fucked people. They built a castle to rip people off. Not once in all these years have I come across a person inside a big Wall Street firm who was having a crisis of conscience.”

when someone talks about ethical problems in medicine -- lets please keep the other utterly corrupt profession in mind (*cough* journalists *cough* lawyers *cough*). In comparison, physicians are saints.

1 comment:

  1. NZ,

    Please email me at shannon.brownlee@comcast.net.

    I'd like to hear a bit more about vena cava filters. My interest stems from the fact that there is wide variation in how they are used on similar populations of patients in different parts of the country.

    Thanks,

    Shannon Brownlee
    visitng scholar, NIH CC Dept Bioethics

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