{"id":6339,"date":"2012-10-08T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pharma-mkting.com\/psychiatry-suicide-by-pharma\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T01:18:41","slug":"psychiatry-suicide-by-pharma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/blog\/psychiatry-suicide-by-pharma\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatry &#8220;Suicide&#8221; by Pharma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Death-by-Pharma.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ec2-54-175-84-28.compute-1.amazonaws.com\/pharma-mkting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Death-by-Pharma.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>British psychiatrist and &#8220;Big Pharma gadfly&#8221; David Healy argued that his profession is \u201ccommitting professional suicide\u201d by failing to address its dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. He made his argument speaking at an annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association during a &#8220;well-attended session on conflicts of interest&#8221; according to <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/10\/05\/psychiatrist-contends-the-field-is-committing-professional-suicide\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a past president of the APA and director of Columbia\u2019s Division of Law, Ethics and Psychiatry cited a study that showed &#8220;only 34% psychiatrists believe that receiving food or gifts affects their own prescribing patterns, 53% believe that it influences that of their colleagues&#8230; Research shows that this type of thinking \u2014 &#8216;Everyone else is prone to biases and social factors, but not me&#8217;\u201d \u2014 is common and confounds attempts to address conflicts.&#8217;At least some of our colleagues are wrong,&#8217; Appelbaum said drily of the study.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Healy offered some advice for how his profession can put some distance between it and the pharmaceutical industry.\u201cThe key issue in the short term is access to data. We have to insist on that,\u201d he said. \u201cWe let industry come to our meetings and let them talk in our programs. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s huge problem that they get paid. The big problem is that if you ask for data, they can\u2019t give it to you. That\u2019s not science, that\u2019s marketing masquerading as science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Carlat, M.D., director of the Pew Prescription Project, organized the session. Carlat once characterized pharma-sponsored Continuing Medical education (CME) as &#8220;a new twist on that well-known instrument of corruption, money laundering.&#8221; Listen to the following podcast interview of Dr. Carlat on that issue:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;\" border=0 width=0 height=0 src=\"http:\/\/c.gigcount.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEzNDk3MTE1NDM1NzcmcHQ9MTM*OTcxMTU1MTg3MyZwPTQ1MDk3MiZkPUhvc3RJRCUzYSUyMDc1NSZnPTImbz*zYzg1\/ZmI1YWMyNTM*MTAwYWM3NzE1ZjRiZGNmNmFiOSZvZj*w.gif\" \/> <\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px;text-align: center; width:210px;\">Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/\">internet radio<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/pharmaguy\">Pharmaguy<\/a> on Blog Talk Radio<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British psychiatrist and &#8220;Big Pharma gadfly&#8221; David Healy argued that his profession is \u201ccommitting professional suicide\u201d by failing to address its dangerously close relationship with the pharmaceutical industry. 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