Do you honestly think pill companies pay doctors based on how many patients they say? I really can't tell if you're serious or (for lack of a nicer word) ignorant.
Okay.... This post has been bugging me because a) I do not like being called ignorant and b) I never said ANYTHING about PILL COMPANIES paying doctors based on how many patients they see. Hence my confusion.
You quoted part of post number 59 in this thread, yet after reviewing the entire post, I still couldn't find where I had stated anything about pill companies paying doctors based on the patients that they see. However, I do believe I figured out the discrepancy.
In my edit, I stated that PILL MILLS pay doctors based on how many patients they see. When I said "pill mills" I was referring to the many pain clinics in the South Florida area. I was never suggesting, nor would I ever be so naive as to believe that pharmaceutical companies pay doctors based on the quantity of patients seen. THAT would be an asinine assumption.
However, it is a known fact that the pain clinics, a.k.a. "pill mills" in South Florida are primarily owned and operated by non-physicians. These pain clinics.... again, commonly known as pill mills, hire doctors to work for them and see as many people as possible on any given day. There are countless ads in the jobs sections of the classifieds looking for doctors. You can always tell when there is a pain clinic/pill mill looking to hire a doctor because it always states in the advertisement something to the effect of, "pay based on a per patient basis."
There was an expose in the Miami Herald that stated these doctors see upwards of 100 patients a day, getting paid an average of $100 per patient. It is common knowledge down here that doctors rarely own the pain clinics to which they work for. That's part of the problem with all the pain management/pill mills in this area. Convicted felons can open up a pain clinic, hire a doctor, and within their first year make over a million dollars. Hell, given enough start-up capital, I could do the same damn thing. The doctor's who work there are mere
employees. Their names are not anywhere to be found except on the prescriptions they write. The pain clinics/pill mills do not invest in the doctor's names on any of their ads or literature because these doctors often jump from clinic to clinic... probably in hopes that they stay under the radar and the Feds don't start looking into their practices.
Since I was obviously confused in the beginning as to what you were talking about in the above referenced post, I hope I have figured it out and clarified my statement.... to which I stand by.
Regards,
Lib
PS. Other nice words that you could have used in place of ignorant are: Inexperienced, uninformed and unaware....... MUCH NICER! Jus' so you know.... 
