Show 965: Is Your Doctor Lying to You?

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2014

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dishonesty in Health Care Health care, it seems, is not immune to the dishonesty that prevails in many other parts of society, whether it is the polite lie that someone looks good (despite a hospital pallor) or a more serious deception or omission, such as a provider’s financial relationship with a drug or device manufacturer. […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.0	And I'm Terry Graydon.
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0:17.0	That's S-Q-U-A-T-Y-P-O-T-Y.com.
0:27.6	Most of us lie from time to time, especially to ourselves.
0:34.4	Does the chance of getting caught reduce a person's likelihood of cheating?
0:38.4	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:49.0	Why do patients sometimes lie to doctors, and why might doctors not always be honest with patients? Are there times
0:56.7	when deception can be beneficial? Should doctors disclose their financial ties to the pharmaceutical
1:02.4	industry? Behavioral economist Dan Ariely has written the honest truth about dishonesty. He'll tell us what
1:10.2	keeps us honest and how we can
1:12.3	apply that to health care as well as our everyday lives. Coming up on the People's Pharmacy,
1:17.8	find out how we can improve our moral health. First, this news.
1:36.1	In the people's pharmacy health headlines, an experimental antiviral drug is being employed against Ebola.
1:43.3	Bryn's Sudofavir has been underdevelopment for several years against other potentially life-threatening viral diseases,
1:48.6	including adenovirus, cytomegalovirus, and smallpox.
1:54.7	The drug has already been tested in over a thousand subjects and does not appear to have serious toxicity.
2:02.8	The Food and Drug Administration has granted the company Emergency Investigational New Drug Application that will allow physicians access to the medication prior to approval.
2:06.6	The drug and its manufacturer Chimerics hit the headlines earlier this year when a child,
2:12.4	Josh Hardy, came down with a life-threatening adenovirus infection after cancer treatment.
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