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"Doctors’ profit may dictate prostate cancer treatment; Study examines increase in use of radiation therapy" by Michelle Fay Cortez | Bloomberg News, October 25, 2013
MINNEAPOLIS — Prostate cancer is the most common tumor diagnosed in the United States, where an estimated 238,590 men were told they had the disease this year. While only about 12 percent, or 29,270 men, will die from it this year, all will have to decide how, and whether, they want to treat the cancer.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday suggests that profits urologists make from referring patients to their own radiation facilities play an outsized role in the treatment decisions....
I'm $urpri$ed the new$paper called you a patient and not a con$umer of health $ervices.
‘‘The results are striking,’’ said Jean Mitchell, the author of the report and a professor of public policy at Georgetown University in Washington, said in a telephone interview. ‘‘It does appear that what’s driving this is financial incentives linked to ownership. It’s crazy the way the system is set up. The patients are going to do what their physician tells them to do. The patient becomes almost like an ATM machine, with the doctor extracting as much revenue as they can.’’
Someone is being given the ATM treatment, guys!
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Something el$e that pi$$es me off:
"In Bangladesh, inspections at factories have not begun" by Mehul Srivastava | Bloomberg News, October 25, 2013
NEW DELHI — Six months ago, after more than 1,100 Bangladeshi workers were killed in the collapse of a high-rise warren of garment factories, international outcry led to pledges by western retailers and the government to set up a large-scale inspection regime and a new wage system.
Today, no Bangladeshi garment factory has been inspected under any of the three programs that sprang from those promises, according to officials at the programs.
In other words, those proclamations from corporate conglomerates were nothing but public relations moves!
Nor has danger ceased in the $19 billion industry: This month, nine workers died when a fire ripped through a factory in suburban Dhaka that provided material for plants supplying clothing to companies including Wal-Mart Stores.
The Rana Plaza collapse, on April 24, is considered the world’s worst garment factory disaster.
The programs’ slow implementation comes against a backdrop of worker unrest that has stalled production and led to massive street demonstrations over safety conditions and wages, which are set at $39 a month before overtime.
Say what? First I've seen of it in my Globe!
One, on Oct. 15, was quelled by the Industrial Police, a rubber-bullet-firing riot force set up two years ago to bring protesting garment workers under control.
Yes, the Bangladeshi government works for the corporations! That is why conditions have been so horrid all these years!
“There is no time to lose anymore,” Dutch ambassador Gerben Sjoerd de Jong said Tuesday in announcing a $24.2 million program funded by the Dutch and British governments and the International Labor Organization to support the Bangladeshi government inspections. “The inspections need to begin now.”
(Blog editor can't describe in words the exasperation he is feeling)
The first international staff for an inspections system led by European retailers, called the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh, arrives next week.
Another week lost!
The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety, a group of mostly North American retailers, says the list of the factories its signatories use is ongoing and no inspections staff is in place in the country.
That's no $urpri$e; they dragged their heels on the token European agreement.
The Bangladeshi government, which will inspect the remaining plants under the Tripartite National Action Plan, has not completed the list of plants that fall under its purview or beefed up staffing for the inspections.
Couldn't they have started with what they have?
And so far, the three groups have yet to agree upon what a universally acceptable inspection will look like, a delay that De Jong said was holding up the process and endangering workers’ lives. Until then, retailers are conducting their own independent reviews.
Wringing every la$t bit of profit they can.
An hour-and-a-half drive from Dhaka, in a suburb called Gazipur, the fire-scarred building that burned on Oct. 8 shows the costs of poor working conditions....
Related: Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 10
Nothing has changed, not a God-damn f***ing thing despite the alleged attention of the corporate pre$$.
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Related: Getting Back to Business in Bangladesh
I really, really, really get tired of being right and repeating myself over and over here.
It's nothing but an agenda-pu$hing, $tatu$ quo new$ media, folks.
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Bangladesh is Bumming
I don't blame them one bit.
