{"id":420,"date":"2014-10-20T16:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/?p=420"},"modified":"2017-08-21T12:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T12:09:11","slug":"primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-men-get-paid-more-than-women-by-big-pharmacy-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2014\/10\/20\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-men-get-paid-more-than-women-by-big-pharmacy-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Men get paid more than women by big pharmacy companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to shock you, but it seems that of the 300 top paid doctors by big pharmacy and medical device companies, 90% are men. No doubt for many reasons, including their predominance at the head of many of the highly paid specialty societies (as I plow through many of the guidelines generated by different specialty organizations, it is pretty remarkable how few women are on these committees).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/09\/upshot\/men-dominate-list-of-doctors-receiving-largest-payments-from-drug-companies.html?ref=policy&amp;_r=1&amp;abt=0002&amp;abg=0%E2%80%8B\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-421\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/files\/2014\/10\/blog-194x300.png\" alt=\"blog\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoff<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men get paid more than women by big pharmacy companies [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2014\/10\/20\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-men-get-paid-more-than-women-by-big-pharmacy-companies\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}