Industry Payments: psychiatry near the top of the list

This letter was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], 28 March 2024. It can be read in full here.  I was particularly interested in the specific mention of psychiatry:I hope that the release of this data covering the decade following the introduction of the US Physicians Payments Sunshine Act will banish the oft repeated assertion that psychiatry has not attracted significant amounts of industry money. This assertion was put forward in this 2017 influential blog:

A more recent blog on ‘Real Psychiatry’, 19 December 2023, states:

The data presented in the 2024 JAMA letter would strongly suggest that there is no myth here:

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