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Discussion on reddit in /r/medicine, by actual medical professionals AFAICS:

https://old.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/9rpajq/dermatolog...

Copy of the starter comment by OP there:

> Starter comment: NYTimes discusses an article that details Venture Capital buying dermatology practices that do an unusually high proportion of high dollar procedures. The article made it through peer review and was posted as an article in press. It was suddenly pulled. The AAD’s incoming president works for an VC Owners clinic and sits on their board. Lawyers for one firm called lead authors institution to demand changes. This is a huge assault on academic freedom. More so than any nonsense from Washington. Coming on the heels of AAD telling multiple people incorrectly that they failed the board exam over the past few years, this is another major scandal that could result huge changes. Or retaliation.

From another comment there that is a tl;dr of some the problem:

> VC involvement in derm practices is a huge, huge issue. One of the bigger practices in town recently was bought by a VC firm, and, lo and behold, all their borderline melanomas now, after being read by their "new" pathologist, need re-resections to get more ti$$ue. I no longer refer to them. Don't even get me started on electronic brachytherapy.