Unrepentant and brash, Martin Shkreli defends Daraprim pricing Martin Shkreli remains as unrepentant as ever Pharmalot December 3, 2015 In a brief, but illuminating appearance at a health industry gathering on Thursday, the controversial chief executive of Turing Pharmaceuticals rejected fresh criticism that he went back on his promise to lower the price of the […]
The pre-DSM-III version of psychiatry was fine with me. My internal medicine and research training had been heavily weighted on the objective side. But practicing, I had realized that the subjective experience of illness [and life] was a much more important part of things than I had realized. So the mix of objectivity and subjectivity […]
Occam’s razor, also known as Ockham’s razor, and sometimes expressed in Latin as lex parsimoniae [the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness], is a principle that generally recommends selecting from among competing hypotheses the one that makes the fewest new assumptions. The strict translation is "Plurality is not to be posited without necessity." In a […]
I’m old enough to have health problems of my own so I have a physician seeing after me [as they say around here], and I work some in a rural clinic myself. Except for still being awed by how many overmedicated patients show up, I rarely think about the things I write about here when […]
A cold rainy day here in the Georgia Mountains – home from a long Thanksgiving holiday trip. I was sort of buzzing by the web sites I missed last week, and I couldn’t help but notice that the topic of drug costs was far and away the dominant topic. It was already on my mind. […]
APA Receives Federal Grant to Train Psychiatrists in Integrated Care PSYCHIATRICNEWS by Mark Moran October 29, 2015 This major milestone is in recognition of APA’s commitment to integrated care. The training that psychiatrists receive will enable them to expand their psychiatric expertise to larger populations of primary care patients.APA is one of just 39 health […]
this is the way the world ends this is the way the world ends this is the way the world ends not with a bang but a whimper T.S.Eliot 1922 Dr. Tom Insel to Step Down as NIMH Director … A national search for a new NIMH Director will be launched, but in the meanwhile […]
Getting treatment for depression is critical special to the Miami Herald by Dr. Charles Nemeroff November 23, 2015 Depression is a commonly used and terribly misunderstood term. When mental health professionals refer to depression, they are referring to a syndrome – a constellation of symptoms that persists every day for two weeks or longer. Patients […]
While it may seem that with all the attention being focused on Data Transparency for Clinical Trials and things like the AMA voting to oppose Direct-to-Consumer advertising, we are iterating towards a time when the battle against the corruption of medical practice by commercial interests is making some real progress. But it seems to me […]