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Fiona Godlee’s ‘final choice‘, after 17 years as the BMJ’s Editor-in-Chief, was to remind the healthcare and scientific community how important it is to speak truth to power. Fiona Godlee … Continue reading My final choice: speaking truth to power
In my dictionary I find this definition of ‘blot’: On learning that GSK will resume paying doctors to promote its drugs after a “policy U turn”, Fiona Godlee, Editor in … Continue reading Dr Fiona Godlee on Paid Opinion Leaders
22 March 2018: Two years to the day, from the release of the outcome of the public consultation on my petition, I returned to the Scottish Parliament to make a … Continue reading Open your ears, listen, let the people petition and be heard
This article features in the latest BMJ. It has been made open access and is copied in full below. I campaigned for Scotland to introduce Sunshine legislation. I did so … Continue reading Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: 4 years on and where is the response to the Cumberlege Review?
This Research was published in the BMJ on the 17 April 2024 and has been made open access. The paper begins with this summary box: A decade has passed since … Continue reading Multiple adverse outcomes
You may read this title and wonder who said it? If you have come across my blog before it would be reasonable to consider that it was said by me! … Continue reading “Excessive claims by drug firms”
This article features in the latest BMJ. It has been made open access and is copied in full below. I campaigned for Scotland to introduce Sunshine legislation. I did so … Continue reading Broken beyond repair
Published 21 May 2024 BMJ 2024;385:e076797 Ravi Gupta, assistant professor of medicine Reshma Ramachandran, assistant professor of medicine Joseph S Ross, professor of medicine and health policy Ravi Gupta and … Continue reading Tackling the excesses of pharmaceutical marketing and promotion