{"id":36762,"date":"2013-05-27T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=36762"},"modified":"2013-05-27T11:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T15:09:15","slug":"all-the-crevices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/27\/all-the-crevices\/","title":{"rendered":"all the crevices…"},"content":{"rendered":"
Having run across the ProPublica<\/font><\/strong> article I mentioned last time lead me, as the Internet tends to do, into some pretty strange territory: <\/div>\n
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Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire<\/a>
ProPublica<\/font><\/strong>
by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein
March 11, 2013<\/div>\n
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… Draud’s $1 million in drug company earnings is probably a minimum figure. Some of the seven companies he represented have reported their payouts for only a short time. And Draud has separately disclosed ties with at least four additional companies that haven’t revealed how much they pay speakers.<\/p>\n

Draud has friends among the other highest-paid doctors in the database. He teaches continuing medical education courses with fellow psychiatrists Rakesh Jain and Vladimir Maletic. Jain, of Lake Jackson, Texas, has earned $582,049<\/a>. Maletic, of Greer, S.C., made $527,850 , according to Dollars for Docs. Both also speak for other companies that keep their payments private… <\/div>\n

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The article mentions Jon Draud MS MD<\/font><\/strong>‘s "friends" Rakesh Jain MD MPH<\/font><\/strong> and Vladimir Maletic MD MS <\/font><\/strong>and the CME courses they teach together, but there’s more. It’s called Psych Congress<\/a>, something I never heard of before. Add Charles Raison MD<\/font><\/strong>, Andrew Penn, RN, MS, NP, CNS, APRN-BC<\/font><\/strong>, and Saundra Jain, MA, PsyD, LPC<\/font><\/strong> to the list, and you have the Board of Psych Congress<\/a>. They have yearly and regional meetings with a potpourri of topics from the standard fare to the outer fringe. The web site<\/a> looks for all the world like a mini-APA except all the presenters are listed right here. Check out a video from the charismatic Dr. Jain<\/a> or the less charismatic Dr. Raison<\/a>. It looked like a CME factory to me … and it is!<\/font><\/strong> It’s a product of the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education<\/a> along with many others. There are more ways than just doing clinical trials to squeeze an extra buck out of medicine, CME is a lucrative business too. Looks like these guys have found all the crevices to slither into… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having run across the ProPublica article I mentioned last time lead me, as the Internet tends to do, into some pretty strange territory: Dollars for Docs Mints a Millionaire ProPublica by Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein March 11, 2013 … Draud’s $1 million in drug company earnings is probably a minimum figure. Some of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36762"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36769,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36762\/revisions\/36769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}