Professor Wendy Burn, President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists [24 December 2019]:
“The influence of pharma on most psychiatrists in the UK is negligible.”
Dr Margaret McCartney has said, in her BMJ column ‘No Holds Barred’ that “Doctors should call out bollocksology when they see it”. Well this emphatic statement by the President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists is a prime example of bollocksology.
Here are some of the paid opinion leaders in UK psychiatry [I have used information available in the public domain to construct visual summaries of the competing interests of some key opinion leaders. I have done so in the spirit of the relevant guidance of the Royal College of Psychiatrists].
