The financial incentives of aesthetic medicine may potentially distort practitioners' ethics. — Whalespan
The financial incentives of aesthetic medicine may potentially distort practitioners' ethics.
⚠ High risk
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
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High-risk intervention — consult a physician before acting.Drug-drug interactions, dose-dependence, and screening contraindications apply.
“And it can it can distort their ethics and they may not even realize they're doing it. I'm not saying that there are physicians out there who are knowingly duping patients into having treatments, but I think it just becomes this unconscious drive because of the finances.”