The Carlat Psychiatry Blog
A blog covering recent developments in the influence of drug industry marketing on medical practice, with an emphasis on psychiatry and accredited CME.
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Mar 19, 12 02:55AMThis will be my last Carlat Psychiatry Blog post for a while, as I have recently accepted a new job as the director of the Pew Prescription Project in Washington DC. My main job there will b e...
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Jan 06, 12 11:15AMThe British Medical Journal's great blogger Richard Lehman has published the following Ten Commandments for excellent clinical practice. These are great rules of thumb for any savvy health care practi tioner...
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Jan 05, 12 06:18AMThe current New York Times Magazine carries a fascinating and quite hilarious profile of Stephen Colbert, of the Colbert Report. Colbert is well known for his parody of a know-nothing rabidly conserva tive...
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Jan 04, 12 11:10AMI just read Bernard Carroll's interesting post on the Health Care Renewal Blog about the latest DSM-5 brouhaha. It appears that the American Psychiatric Association has sent a "cease and desist" lette r...
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Dec 22, 11 08:54AMThose of us who have followed the progress of the implementation of the Physician Payment Sunshine Act have been acutely aware of one potential loophole: drug companies might try to hide payments to...
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Dec 12, 11 01:35PMThis month's issue of Health Affairs carries this fascinating article (free full text) written by a woman with MS who found out her neurologist made $300,000 in speaking and promotional activities in 3...
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Nov 14, 11 07:15AMSometimes in the CME field you come across something that seems so embarrassing for everybody involved that you just have to shake your head and wonder what they were thinking. So here is the link to Medscape...
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Oct 26, 11 03:14AMThe September 2011 issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry created history in two ways. First, the journal published this article written by FDA staff critically reviewing the efficacy and safe ty...
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Oct 11, 11 11:01AMEverybody would like to find a brain scan or a blood or spinal fluid test to predict Alzheimer's disease. Such objective tests seem inherently more reliable than the clinical interview. Recently we'v e...
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Sep 09, 11 11:09AMWe've been beefing up the Carlat CME Institute, a website whose mission is to support excellence in non-industry-funded CME. Our latest feature is the "CME Rogue's Gallery" in which we keep a running list...
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