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How patients should respond to physicians’ financial conflicts

April 12, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized tagged James Rickert, M.D.

James Rickert, M.D., discusses what patients can do in a time when physicians’ personal-financial conflicts of interest all too trump the best clinical decisions as medicine is seen more and more (by some) as a business more than a calling.

Fighting corruption in orthopedic surgery

March 23, 2015by Robert Whitcomb in Uncategorized tagged James Rickert, M.D., Society for Patient Centered Orthopedic Surgery

X-ray of hip replacement.

James Rickert, M.D., an Indiana orthopedist, says financial conflicts of interest often drive physicians to perform worthless surgeries, and he says that orthopedics “is one of the worst offenders,” reports MedPage Today.

He has launched a “moral persuasion” campaign to get his colleagues to stop this corruption. Dr. Rickert founded the Society for Patient Centered Orthopedic Surgery to push this cause.

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How patients should respond to physicians’ financial conflicts

Fighting corruption in orthopedic surgery

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