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Medical professionals have a strong responsibility to their patients, but what about their criminal liability if their patient dies? Does a medical professional remain liable even if the patient refuses to follow his or her medical advice? Should a doctor or other medical professional face criminal [...]
I was listening to the Howard Stern show the other day when I heard Tila Tequila talk about the death of her “wifey”, socialite and Johnson & Johnson family heiress Casey Johnson. I was like, whoa, these celebrities are dropping like flies! What they all have in common is a death related to prescription medications. [...]
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Reported By: Beth Galvin | Edited By: Leigha Baugham
Nearly 20 percent of American doctors get paid by drug companies to be consultants or speakers, and in some cases, they’re making quite a lot of money. So does that influence [...]
After the announcement today that the American Medical Association (AMA) had come out against the Obama healthcare reform initiative and a government based healthcare insurance plan, protests erupted across the land. First after our post from yesterday there was this post from Alison Bass who cites other physicians describing their outrage as well as this post from Chris McCoy MD who publically resigned from the AMA over the outrage.
An article in the New Yorker called The Cost Conundrum by Atul Gawande MD has gotten the attention of the current administration in Washington. The news that McAllen TX had the most expensive healthcare in the country as measured by Medicare expenditure per capita
President Barack Obama has decided to take a more hands on approach to healthcare reform, with plans for speeches, town hall meetings, and direct meetings with legislators, instead of sitting back and waiting for Congress to mess things up. That might be a good thing,
As I have written about before, sociologists know that there is a group of innovators, early adaptors, and then the “herd” that follows along (see “Diffusion of Innovations in Service Organizations” or “Disseminating Innovations in Healthcare”). It is true for farmers in Costa Rica adopting a new type of grain seed, or for psychiatrists prescribing a new brand of antipsychotic.
Leaders of the American Medical Industrial complex wrote a letter to the Obama administration recently promising to bring down the costs of healthcare. I don’t know about you but to me this is like asking a wolf to eat less red meat! Let’s see, who were on the list of worthies?
Merck drew up a “hit list” of doctors in academia whose opinions about Vioxx were negative in order to “neutralise” or “discredit” them (their words, not mine).
This month’s American Journal of Psychiatry has a somewhat lame article on conflicts of interest regarding the pharmaceutical industry and psychiatry. Before I delve into this piece I must provide some background information, however. Psychiatry is divided into two sections, maybe three.
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