‘Pharma pays millions into’
This investigation features in the current BMJ:
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AKATHISIA
The above alternative front cover for the BMJ asks an important question. This post was prompted by the front cover of this week’s BMJ: When I am reflecting on patient … Continue reading AKATHISIA
‘Transparency as a means to conquer conflicts of interest is illusory’
This opinion piece by Dr Margaret McCartney has just been published in the BMJ. It is Open Access and can be read here. Dr McCartney states that: “Transparency as a … Continue reading ‘Transparency as a means to conquer conflicts of interest is illusory’
Protecting early career physicians from commercial interest
As published in the BMJ, 9 September 2024: Rapid Response to this Editorial, published in the BMJ:Cumberl Continuing Medical Education in British psychiatry:
‘The willingness among some within medicine and research to tackle conflicts of interest’
The support of the BMJ Editor in Chief to address meaningfully financial conflicts of interest in medicine and science is most welcome. As an NHS doctor of 25 years I … Continue reading ‘The willingness among some within medicine and research to tackle conflicts of interest’
My final choice: speaking truth to power
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
Dr Fiona Godlee on Paid Opinion Leaders
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
Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: 4 years on and where is the response to the Cumberlege Review?
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?