• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    I worked with a doctor whose in-laws were Saudi royalty. He didn’t need to work at all he was so wealthy.

    I heard about him doing an incredibly greedy thing that blew my mind one day; he showed up at a dinner that a drug company was hosting for another adjacent program he had nothing to do with and did not practice in at all. He didn’t even tell them he was coming, they had to find him a seat, and then he sat down, ordered not one but TWO whole lobsters, and when they came he asked for them to be wrapped to go, and he left. Even acknowledging drug companies have large budgets for these kinds of things, to come to an event that has nothing to do with you and do that is insanely rude when you don’t want for a thing in the world.

    I know someone else who is very wealthy, and he’s pretty generous and passionate about creating things, he’s far from perfect, but truly wants to make good things and runs a business that gives him zero profit, so the contrast was pretty stark. The doctor also stiffed his professional college for a very large membership bill.

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      A drug company throwing a fancy dinner in order to influence doctors to ignore the needs of their patients is so unbelievably evil that fucking with them and stealing from them is always based and worthy of praise. Being rude to them is morally correct, since the act they were committing was already more rude to begin with.

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        26 minutes ago

        Oh, this drug company is absolutely not like that at all. They are super ethical and invest every dollar of their profits into research. The dinner was to present a new treatment which has become super standard for the clinic, which involved one of our doctors presenting, I promise it was not like that at all. They are truly generous to us. There are not many treatments for this disease and this is one of the best. It was purely educational.