Psychiatrists reject pharmaceutical industy funding! 'Bout time! I heard this quite by chance on NPR news, and googled to get details. Found it The Carlat Psychiatry Blog - "Supporting the search for honesty in medical education." Wow! What a concept!
The article, APA Votes to Phase out Industry-Funded CME, gives some the details, although I can't find anything about it on the APA web site - or indeed on any other sites.
The NPR report noted that there are an increasing number of studies which indicate that these free lunches do impact on prescribing habits, and that they have greatest impact on those doctors who swear blind that they are not affected.
Now all we need is for this to spread to other medical disciplines - and then to Indonesia.
Babé
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