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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?
Dr. Mehmet Oz, described as America’s Doctor, who makes frequent appearances on the Oprah Show and who authored several books in the popular series of You: The Owner’s Manual which he co-authors with Michael Roizen, MD, is a paid consultant for a website called RealAge that asks you a series of questions to find out your biological or “real” age, and sells that information to drug companies…
President Barack Obama’s administration is rolling back into universal healthcare land just like Hillary Clinton tried to way back when. We’ll see if he can survive the shark infested waters any better than she did.
He always kind of reminded me of a cat, anyway.
But this just in, the always mischievous Senator Charles Grassley (kind of like out lolcats!) has written a letter to President Barack Obama that says:
One thing I’ve asked every president since Ronald Reagan to do is to hold a Rose Garden ceremony honoring whistleblowers.
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.
“Congress did not intend FDA oversight to be the exclusive means of ensuring drug safety and effectiveness” – Justice John Paul Stevens
Wyeth, Drugmakers Lose as Top U.S. Court Allows Suits (Update1)
By Greg Stohr
March 4 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered patient lawsuits against drugmakers, upholding a $7 million award to [...]
In a sign of their undying loyalty to drug and device makers the Republicans have declared their opposition to a plan to add a billion dollars to the stimulus package to study the relative cost and effectiveness of different treatments for chronic conditions, a plan which President Obama is expected to sign tomorrow. I simply had to [...]
In this week’s bmj there is an article by Thomas Jefferson of the Cochrane Vaccine Institute (“Relation of study quality, concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review“) whom I have often quoted before (“Flu Shots are for Idiots“) regarding the dubious evidence behind policy recommendations [...]
In this week’s edition of the British Medical Journal BMJ there are some articles on “Doctors, patients, and the drug industry” which include some typical “fair and balanced” he said-she said articles in which avators like Marcia Angell (doctors should cut ties with drug industry) and our old friend from Yale Harlan Krumholz [...]
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