Circular Logic - A Revolving Door Update

We have actually managed to go for three months without posting on the revolving door.






Since then, however, we have accumulated a sufficient number of relevant cases to post another round up.


The Old School Outgoing Revolving Door

Let us begin with cases of the old fashioned outgoing revolving door, that is, of
people leaving leadership positions in governmental bodies which
regulate

Government Increasingly Promoting Sectarianism-Based Health Policy

Traditionally, physicians and other health care professionals are taught to put the care of the individual patient first.  Patients deserve care according to their own values as best they can be realized.  Physicians whenever possible should avoid substituting their own values for those of the patient.  In particular, they should avoid imposing their own religious beliefs on those of patients.

The Rise of the Suits - First Hints of Managerialism in Health Care

Tom Mueller just published a monumental work on whistleblowing, Crisis of Conscience - Whistleblowing the an Age of Fraud





The introductory chapter starts with the TMAP/ Risperdal/ Johnson and Johnson case.  We first posted on this case in 2006 here.  Briefly, as revealed by whistleblower Allen Jones, Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Janssen was accused of conducting a campaign of deception,

Marketers Want Even More Control Over Hospitals

Once, a long time ago, in a galaxy far away, doctors and hospitals did no marketing, and pharmaceutical marketing was restricted to health care professional audiences.  Now, in the US, we have  often seen the negative effects of exuberant  marketing, often deceptive, on the health care system.

A Marketer Pushes More Marketing Influence on Hospital Management

Yet, in a post in the Marketing