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by asdff 491 days ago
> The high-prescribers were people operating out of strip malls, often with unclear credentials, and whose main clientele were opioid addicts.

I think this is an assumption. May be right but for all doctors who “listen to patients needs” to be pill pushers deserving prison time seems a little too inconvenient. At the end of the day he is asked to optimize a business in a consultancy not to play to his moral principles and get replaced on the project for someone who will optimize it for business needs. At least he is potentially seeing all the inputs with these relationships and a side of the healthcare industry a lot of people wouldn’t have any experience with without holding these positions themselves to be able to be in these rooms where these conversations are held.