Hey, wanna be disgusted?
Mar 21 2007 | Comment 1
Well, I can help.
Doctors’ Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View
liz | 5:21 PM | Uncategorized
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Well, I can help.
Doctors’ Ties to Drug Makers Are Put on Close View
liz | 5:21 PM | Uncategorized
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
Yeah, you did help. It got me disgusted. This was one of the better articles about this subject that I have read. Some of the stats and quotes were just about enough to consider firing several of my docs.
I especially liked the stat about Dr. Grimm having received more than $798,000 between ‘97 & ‘05, but by golly he did give a whopping $50,000 (during that same time frame) to the Minneapolis Medical Research Foundation. Oh, and by the way, he says he is not biased. (ahem) Wow, generous. That only left him $748,000.
And the quote from Dr. Eric Storvick, “It beats talking to little old ladies about their bowels”. Yeah, that’s putting the interest of your patients first. Smarmy asshole.
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