The medical school at Tufts has a little of everything.
It has the heroic Dr Jerome Kassirer, who writes, and testifies in front of Congress, about the “thinly disguised bribes” that pill and device marketers offer to physicians.
It has the appallingly inept Dr. Kajoko Kifuji, who does little these days other than testify in multiple courtrooms about her malpractice.
And it has, most recently, a whole bunch of cardiologists who seem to be involved, along with the device manufacturer Medtronic, in a false claims investigation.
March 12th, 2010 at 11:33AM
This is indeed tough to score, but it’s worth bearing in mind that Kassirer is apparently an actual professor on the university payroll, whereas the others are (as far as I can see) staff members of affiliated teaching hospitals that are not part of the university (despite the name, in one case) who have clinical appointments. The often fraught relationship between a medical school and its affiliated hospitals is a confusing factor in many of the scandalous incidents to which UD draws attention.