Eyes & Medical Device - Doctor Relationships

10/27/2022

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I will resume writing after the January, 2025, inauguration if Joe Biden is reelected.

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July 16, 2023 Update: This article is very interesting.

They Lost Their Legs. Doctors and Health Care Giants Profited. (NYTimes)

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Since the eyes are the primary receptors of information and instincts, this post has to do with eyes and medical device - doctor relationships.

When I ask a question, which is a reflection of my nature, I get to see how the person's soul, in their eyes, responds to my essence.

From my experience while riding the bus, if I look at someone, make eye contact, and say, "Hi. Have a nice day." This disarms them since they know that I am aware of them and unafraid to speak to them.

Since I discovered as an adult that a person's energy may not match their eyes after several interactions, I will ask myself in my silence if I can reproduce the other person's feel-good energy within myself after the person leaves the room or do I have to chase them to get their energy fill?

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On September 27, 2022, CBS DFW reported that IV bags used in hospitals are not tamper-proof or tamper-evident. This got me recently thinking about, which I Googled, "Are doctors paid by medical device companies?"

While there are several other articles saying the similar statistics, I am using the quotes from Medical device firms’ payments to doctors far outstripped those from pharma, study shows, which shockingly says:

"The medical device industry gave doctors consulting fees, lunches, lodging, and other incentive payments worth $904 million between 2014 and 2017, per a new study — more than $80 million more than the pharmaceutical industry lavished on physicians over the same time period."

' “I find that problematic,” said Mitchell, who was not involved in the research. “It becomes a lot harder to [decide which product is best] when that salesperson is also taking you out to $500 dinners and pays you tens of thousands of dollars in consulting fees over the last few years.” '

"The researchers found that the device industry lavished the most money its payments to surgical specialists. Surgical specialists received seven times more money from device firms than drug vendors. These doctors, the paper noted, are far more likely to implant or otherwise use medical devices in their work."

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Always trust your instincts when a doctor suggests a medical device or surgery since the surgeon may be paid by the device company. I then Googled, “Do doctors push surgeries on patients?” One of the results was, Doctor Performed Surgery When It Wasn’t Necessary, which says:

“According to a survey by researchers at Johns Hopkins, doctors say that unneeded medical care is common. A survey of more than 2,000 doctors found that overtreatment is common, in part, driven by patient demand and profit motives. These doctors believed 15% to 30% of medical care is not needed. These unnecessary medical services can also cost more than $200 billion in excess spending, increasing health care costs and wasting limited health care resources.”

‘ Given the unnecessary risks of a surgery that is not needed, why would doctors continue to perform procedures that are not necessary? There are a few reasons why doctors may push a patient towards a medical procedure that is less than beneficial. In an editorial published in BioMed Central, one of the answers is that surgeons “are incentivized to perform surgical procedures, either for financial gain, renown, or both.” ‘

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Thank you for reading.