UMDNJ faces corruption fallout

If indeed this horrific report is true, the doctors should be stripped off their licenses. Corruption of physicians and Surgeons is a pervasive problem. Doctors are prone to enticement from hospitals, Big Pharma, the health insurance industry and device makers. The so called "industry-thought leaders" should be held to the harshest scrutiny by the Feds. If you do not severely punish the doctors involved in these kickback schemes, the problem will persist. This is a cancer that has invaded the medical profession and is now seen in even small rural hospitals. A parallel from which lessons could be learned is the current failed federal policy of prosecution of drug dealers but not the drug users, particularly those who use less than a certain gram amount of cocaine! Unless you curb the demand side of the economics the supply side will not dry out. If these doctors are proven to have received hundreds of thousands of dollars as the report suggests, they should be fined a hundred times that amount and prosecuted with the maximum jail time permitted under the law. Their crimes have far reaching effects principal among which are poor quality of instruction of doctors in training and increasing the cost of healthcare.