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Stephen E. Silver, MD
Department of Dermatology Yale University School of Medicine New Haven, CT 06510

Arch Dermatol. 1994;130(11):1448-1449.

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As much as I enjoyed Crawshaw's¹ article on physician greed, I am sick and tired of hearing about ''bad apples'' in the medical profession. The ''bad apple'' philosophy presumes that while most physicians are ethical, there are a few among us who are morally impaired—the ''money grubbers,'' the ''greedy''—who constitute the problem and ''we'' have to figure out what to do with ''them.'' I suggest that these ''greedy'' few may be serving as scapegoats for the rest of us who are not particularly inclined to examine our own billing habits.

There are two points I want to make. First, I think that we should not confuse rich doctors with greedy ones. A high income is not the sine qua non of greed. If a physician owns five Porsches, I would not automatically condemn him. Believe it or not, some physicians deserve to be richly rewarded. As far as I . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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