‘Money spoils the medicine’

Men, Money, & Medicine

translation yields a style of presentation that is often stilted and awkward. A partially redeeming feature, and perhaps unique in this kind of publication , is a 60-question-and-answer chapter which gives a rapid and practical orientation to the physician prescribing these pills and the patient receiving them. Despite this pleasant surprise, the book in general does not add to what is already ...

Children Share the Spoils After

Egalitarian behavior is considered to be a species-typical component of human cooperation. Human adults tend to share resources equally, even if they have the opportunity to keep a larger portion for themselves. Recent experiments have suggested that this tendency emerges fairly late in human ontogeny, not before 6 or 7 years of age. Here we show that 3-year-old children share mostly equally wi...

From America: manpower, money, and cookbook medicine.

The Association Between Money and Opinion in Academic Emergency Medicine

OBJECTIVES Financial conflicts of interest have come under increasing scrutiny in medicine, but their impact has not been quantified. Our objective was to use the results of a national survey of academic emergency medicine (EM) faculty to determine if an association between money and personal opinion exists. METHODS We conducted a web-based survey of EM faculty. Opinion questions were analyze...

Young children share the spoils after collaboration.

Egalitarian behavior is considered to be a species-typical component of human cooperation. Human adults tend to share resources equally, even if they have the opportunity to keep a larger portion for themselves. Recent experiments have suggested that this tendency emerges fairly late in human ontogeny, not before 6 or 7 years of age. Here we show that 3-year-old children share mostly equally wi...