Top Psychiatrist Didn’t Report Drug Makers’ Pay New York Times By GARDINER HARRIS October 3, 2008 One of the nation’s most influential psychiatrists earned more than $2.8 million in consulting arrangements with drug makers from 2000 to 2007, failed to report at least $1.2 million of that income to his university and violated federal research […]
The new medical-industrial complex. by Relman AS. New England Journal of Medicine. 1980 303[17]:963-70. The most important health-care development of the day is the recent, relatively unheralded rise of a huge new industry that supplies health-care services for profit. Proprietary hospitals and nursing homes, diagnostic laboratories, home-care and emergency-room services, hemodialysis, and a wide variety […]
Parity Enforcement: A Top Priority PsychiatricNews by Paul Summergrad President of the American Psychiatric Association December 2014 Many laws can be difficult to enforce effectively, or in some cases, to enforce at all. That’s long been the case with environmental and human-rights laws, often because violations are committed by many and the government’s ability to […]
A Debate Between Allen Frances and Robert Whitaker Mad in America by Allen Frances, M.D. and Robert Whitaker December 4, 2014 [full text on-line] It’s there for all to read so I won’t try to summarize it here. I’d suggest reading it, actually reading it several times. Because it’s so familiar, I tended to skim […]
a·nach·ro·nism (-nkr-nzm) noun 1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order. 2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time. from Latin anachronismus, from Greek anakhronismos a mistake in chronology, from […]
Well. it seems far, far away from now. It was the 1960s, and the notion that someone on a medical faculty might have financial ties to a pharmaceutical company was unheard of. Coming this way into the 1970s to a psychiatry residency and faculty appointment – the same unheard of. I wrote about my first […]
A level playing field The Lancet Psychiatry. 2014 1[6]:403. At The Lancet Psychiatry we aim to publish research that illuminates and changes clinical practice. Changing practice requires a high standard of evidence, although existing practice does not always have a solid scientific base. Management of mental health often seems intuitive, so many interventions have been […]