Originally Posted by mrsd

There are 3 copies of a revealing new study on doctor $$ kickbacks in psychiatry on this board:

Here is one link:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/sh...ad.php?t=22729

Now I know drug reps...I know they get a readout downloaded into their computer monthly on the # of Rxs written each month from their assigned doctors. I bet some of you didn't know this...but it is TRUE...
wanna read about it? http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archive...datatrade.html

So they come in and say... Dr. Blah Blah...your numbers are down this month.
If you get them up for me, I'll get you the $300 text book, vacation in Hawaii,
or even bucks... and it gets done. I have heard that if a doctor just calls a colleague and discusses the drug, the calling Doc gets bucks!

Then there is the ghostwritten study...where prestigious names are bought and plastered right on the study (never having done or even read it) to impress other doctors. This whistle was blown about 5 yrs ago.
Then there is the "hide negative studies" which the NY Attorney General sued Glaxo to reveal. Now you can read the truth about Paxil on their website. But only after being sued. Some of the medical journals have changed their criteria for publishing now. Negative studies are being required.

Basically it all boils down to bucks. And yes, we have laughed here about the Lipitor extermination squad planting a bomb in my car! LOL
(When the dangerous Redux scandal was brewing, I got into trouble with Ayerst personally...a rather feeble attempt to shut me up at work...that failed of course, and Redux was whipped off the market a few months later for causing heart damage and PPH. It was sort of like getting hit with a rubber band (you know when you shoot them at someone?)... I didn't bat an eye at that one!