This is crazy. The Times has an amazing — and in a few spots quite sad — look at payments from drug companies to doctors in Minnesota. “The Times’s examination of Minnesota’s trove of records on drug company payments to doctors found that from 1997 to 2005, at least 103 doctors who had been disciplined or criticized by the state medical board received a total of $1.7 million from drug makers. The median payment over that period was $1,250; the largest was $479,000.” Why the discipline and criticisms? It appears that doctors have been putting the payments ahead of the well-being of patients like Susan Endersbe, who jumped off the Franklin Bridge when she was inappropriately taken off her anti-depression medicine as a part of a study.