Yes -- this is how some multi-year, multi-company pattern bad deeds. . . never stop "giving". The estimable Lown Institute is now on its eighth iteration of finding all the "worst of the worst" -- in (primarily US) health care delivery. The fine institute started all this, as Martin went off to the clink some years ago.
Here eight years later, it is running on all cylinders, thus stronger -- and more widely known, across the globe -- than ever. Well, at least in this way, Martin's name will not be lost to the sands of time/history -- of the early 21st Century. [Not sure I'd want to be famous in this way, though.]
Here's a link to make your nominations for this 2024 year.
And here's a bit of the story, there:
. . .Welcome to the Shkreli Awards, the Lown Institute’s top ten list of the worst examples of greed and dysfunction in health care, named for the infamous “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli. Join us and our esteemed guests to find out which bad actors will take home the dubious honor of a Shkreli Award.
Previous winners include:
Pharma companies that sued to stop Medicare from negotiating drug prices. . . .
The “stent king” who placed as many as 80-90 stents in a single patient
A so-called nonprofit hospital that paid their CEO $35 million
[This one seems extra-poignant, this year as we all reel from the mentally-ill Mangione's hit man style murder of the United Healthcare insurance CEO, about nine days ago.] Even so, I'll try keep a positive thought going into the holidays -- as in five days, I evaporate into the desert southwest, until midway through January of 2025.
Keep it spinning in good karma people!
Onward.
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Be excellent to one another. . . [Note that the Vidyard free video interface / uploader above apparently strips out all of the iPhone 16 Pro HDR and 4K rendering, so it is a little washed out, but you get the idea. grin. . .].
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