More than 10 years ago, the NYT [0] and a Mt. Sinai researcher [1] published exposes of doctors being paid heavily by drug companies, after examining the paper

More than 10 years ago, the NYT [0] and a Mt. Sinai researcher [1] published exposes of doctors being paid heavily by drug companies, after examining the paper records that companies were required to file in the state of Minnesota. That helped spur the creation of the federal Open Payments database (https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/ https://www.cms.gov/openpayments/), which, for a government web-facing database, is actually pretty good. That prominent doctors are still comfortable with flouting the disclosure rules is a nice example of how availability of data and records is still toothless without people (including journalists) being vigilant. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/health/03docs.html https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/health/03docs.html [1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/206127 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/206127