6. Tell doctors to diagnose a disease if they want
to get paid
1700’s: ICD coding system (International
Classification of Disease) started with
approximately 100 diseases
2012: ICD-10 has over 144,000 different
diseases for doctors to pick for you
7. Tell doctors to order
more tests if they
want to get paid
Examples of tests:
MRI, CT, blood testing, X-
rays, Ultrasound,
Electrocardiograms, Nerve
Conduction Studies)
11. How do drug
companies
make money?
How do drug
companies
make LOTS
of money?
12. If a drug company runs out of simple drugs to sell
for doctors to prescribe, what treatment will a
drug company need to convince doctors to
prescribe if they want to make lots of money?
13. If doctors spent most of their time learning
about healthy nutrition and exercise practices
instead of disease treatments….
And didn’t use a lot of prescription drugs….
And all of us reduced our risk for cancer……
Do you think a drug company would be happy
that we are all healthy and don’t need
expensive treatments?
14. You guessed it!
They need you to have
cancer so they can sell
you expensive treatment.
