This Medical Corruption & Abuse blog  arm features stories of corruption in medicine, concentrating mainly on the abuse of trusting patients by corrupt practitioners and establishments.  Although the stories are culled from my own patient population, the details are properly camouflaged so as to protect all concerned from unlawful, vindictive retributions.  My intentions are not to punish anyone but rather to inform and protect unsuspecting patients from the growing corruption that is eroding the integrity of our medical establishments.
        My definition of medical corruption is simple.  Corruption means abusing patients' trust by going against scientific evidence for the sake of profit.  To promote ideas that are contrary to evidence is inexcusable morally; however, if it is done based on strong personal beliefs, it might be understandable as long as it is not done for the sake of profit.  In a free society, we are free to believe whatever we want and our beliefs do not have to be evidence based.  Promoting such beliefs is also our inalienable right.  But selling such non-evidence-based ideas for profit is morally wrong and contemptible.
        When there is no scientific evidence for or against a belief or treatment, then it behooves the practitioner to publish from his own research the scientific evidence supporting that belief or treatment before promoting them for profit.  It is the duty of every practitioner to publish in scientific journals the discoveries he has made, which have helped others, so that such discoveries can have wider applications.  But before such discoveries undergo the scrutiny of scientific publication, charging patients for them when they are still non-evidence-based beliefs or treatments is also morally wrong and contemptible.