People have discovered that doctors are people, too — wealthy ones, more often than not. People have also discovered that if you poke any saint deep enough, you will soon touch self-interest. There goes the aura of altruism and compassion.
The editorial says that we need to “restore the scientific integrity of medicine.” Perhaps we would be well advised to work on the personal integrity of individual doctors, since so many of them have found a new home in the deep pockets of Big Pharma.
The word “humane” has disappeared from many sectors of society, including medicine. This concept needs to be brought back to replace the devils of indifference and greed. As additional reading on this subject, I highly recommend Petr Skrabanek's The Death of Humane Medicine and the Rise of Coercive "Healthism". His proposal is that humane medicine is being displaced by dubious prevention programmes, which coerce populations into “healthy” lifestyles and unjustified screening and doctors into becoming agents of the state.
The Death of Humane Medicine: And the Rise of Coercive Healthism: https://bradtaylor.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/death-of-humane-medicine.pdf