If as a doctor, I don't agree with the various reasons and excuses given in some of the answers for doctors taking kickbacks.
Taking kickbacks is a crime in itself, and just because there are more people taking kickbacks doesn't make it legal, and just because a doctor's income isn't proportional to his or her effort doesn't make it reasonable.
But if you ask me if I would take kickbacks? The answer is yes. Because the cost of breaking the law is too low, the drug dealers are too sincere in their intentions, and their own income is too small.? I won't give any reason or excuse for breaking the law, but sorry, I have a family to feed.?
Unethical behavior is inherently immoral, it doesn't become ethical just because you have to feed your family. Behavior we can understand, after all no one has a problem with money, but being condemned for being immoral you have to suffer. In fact the best way to wash your hands of this unethical behavior is to shift the consequences of this unethical behavior from the patients to the drug dealers, like the supermarkets squeezing the suppliers to the benefit of the people, this is the way to go.
Personally, I think the best way to do this is to raise doctors' salaries, something like ? high pay for low pay? and at the same time the separation of medicine. Of course, doing both is just minimizing kickbacks, while keeping doctors from using drugs for kickbacks. As long as patients need medication, the kickbacks will always be there, it's just a matter of how much or how little, because no one is going to mess with money.
There are also netizens who say, "Doctors around me will refer patients to drugs that are different in price but close in efficacy, so the choice is on the patient's side. As for the drugs themselves, the higher the price, the better the efficacy must be, there is no doubt about it. If the efficacy of a 100-dollar box of medicine is exactly the same as that of a 10-dollar box of medicine, the 100-dollar box of medicine will definitely be eliminated by the market economy. But this thing is really hard to say, for each individual, the effect of each drug will be different, such as diarrhea, basically only haloperidol is effective, but you also know that this kind of drug because it is too cheap has basically extinct. And that's if the patient has it in his or her mind. More often than not, for some other conditions, every word the doctor says is extremely important, and the patient has no ability to differentiate between the drugs the doctor dispenses. I don't disagree with you when you say that expensive medicines work well in general, but what about quantity? Should you dispense one box or two boxes of a certain drug? This is all up to the doctor.