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Imagine this: there is a large hospital chain of national scale. Doctors are salaried employees and they’re found to be prescribing medical products that are harmful to their patients. They recommend these products as they carry higher kick-backs from the drug companies. For example, they prescribe drugs that are known to cause sugar in diabetics to rise — not very different from bankers who sell life insurance products to those above age 60. They recommend expensive muscle enhancers instead of multi-vitamin to economically weaker patients suffering from poor nutrition, not very different from selling sector funds to fisherfolk who come looking for a bank deposit. What would you say if the regulatory authority that oversees hospitals said this: “If there was negligence in the medical care, we are responsible, but correct drugs are the responsibility of the drug makers – it is not our problem. Go to the drug regulator.”