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It takes a special sort of person to be a cardiologist. This is not always a good thing.

You may have read about one or another of the \u201ccardiologist caught falsifying test results and performing dangerous unnecessary surgeries to make more money\u201d stories, but you might not have realized just how common it really is.\xa0Maryland cardiologist\xa0performs over 500 dangerous unnecessary surgeries to make money.\xa0Unrelated Maryland cardiologist\xa0performs another 25 in a separate incident.\xa0California cardiologist\xa0does \u201cseveral hundred\u201d dangerous unnecessary surgeries and gets raided by the FBI.\xa0Philadelphia cardiologist, same. North Carolina cardiologist,\xa0same.\xa011 Kentucky cardiologists, same. Actually just a couple of miles from my own hospital,\xa0a Michigan cardiologist\xa0was found to have done $4 million worth of the same. Etc, etc, etc.

My point is not just about the number of cardiologists who perform dangerous unnecessary surgeries for a quick buck. It\u2019s not even just about the\xa0cardiology insurance fraud,\xa0cardiology kickback schemes, or\xa0cardiology research data falsification conspiracies.\xa0That could all just be attributed to some distorted incentives in cardiology as a field. My point is that it takes a special sort of\xa0person\xa0to be a cardiologist.