http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/04/health/policy/04drug.html?em
The ability to prescribe medications clearly makes all physicians, including psychiatrists of course, prime candidates for drug companies to lobby with attractive inducements--nothing new there. That such prominent professionals are allowing themselves to betray their basic ethical commitments in favor of these special financial gains is dismaying. One has to ponder how many prescriptions given by doctors have been influenced/swayed by the lobbying efforts and inducements of the huge and powerful pharmaceutical companies? I, for one, believe this case, as well as a few other recent NYT's stories of psychiatrists' benefiting from promoting medications, are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Joan [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
