Reading through the available parts of Dr. Melvin Sabshin’s book, Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective, that had to do with his time at the APA was less engaging than the earlier part [roots…]. The agenda was monotonous: The agenda of the book was to assert that the agenda of the DSM-III Revision was not […]
I appreciate Dr. Carroll’s opening comments about this blog, and I have to add that he took my Yugoslavia analogy [c’est la vie…] to much greater heights, filling in some essential historical dimensions in the story: DOES AMERICAN PSYCHIATRY MATTER? Healthcare Renewal by Bernard Carroll November 03, 2012 In his latest posting he compared the […]
The story of how my wife and I ended up on a Mediterranean Cruise in our early thirties on a ship filled with British "Holidaymakers" would take up several pages, but have nothing to do with why I mention it. The trip started in Split Yugoslavia in the days of Marshall Tito, and stopped in […]
I am so used to writing about wrong things, when something right comes along I just can’t stop thinking about it. This British Medical Journal decision to only publish Clinical Trials that have patient-level datasets available is an elegant solution to a not easily solved problem: Clinical trial data for all drugs in current use […]
Medical Journal to Require More Details on Drug Trials New York Times By KATIE THOMAS October 31, 2012 The British Medical Journal has announced that, beginning in January, it will no longer publish the results of clinical trials unless drug companies and researchers agree to provide detailed study data on request. The decision by the […]