Posted by Bekka H. on January 21, 2002, at 13:40:03
In reply to Re: Dr. Ivan Goldberg, posted by OldSchool on January 21, 2002, at 11:13:50
> > > Id also like to say that if I had not become a self educated patient like Ive done, I would probably be dead by now.
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> > >Old School
The problem is so much of the literature is crap! Sorry. So much of the literature is bias by big pharmaceutical drug companies and physicians publishing questionable data in order to further their career, it gets hard to decipher.
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> Yes I totally agree that much of the info provided by the pharmaceutical companies is pure, unadulterated crap. I dont listen to everything I read or hear about psych meds. I make my own decisions and I think independently.
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> I personally believe the pharmaceutical industry is holding back a lot of good potential new ideas and research in psychiatry.
*************************************************In my experience, everything above is absolutely true. I have worked on a number of clinical studies, and the pressure on reseachers to "publish or perish" is immense, and often forces even the honest ones into unethical behavior. Just this week on Medscape, there is an article about investigations into fraud in Britain. AT LEAST 5% of all drug trials in Britain are plagued with fraud, and I imagine that figure is just as high or higher here in the U.S. Two summers ago, I learned from a similar article about clinical trials in the U.S. that at least 50% of all doctors who are involved pharmaceutical research receive money from the drug companies for their research. Now, are the pharmaceutical companies really going to keep doctors who speak the truth on the payroll?
poster:Bekka H.
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