Sailing blithely: Paid opinion leaders in psychiatry

Summer 2013: Professor Carmine Pariante invited Professor Charles Nemeroff to give the Inaugural lecture for the new centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry: Around this time I … Continue reading Sailing blithely: Paid opinion leaders in psychiatry

‘Deprescribing antidepressants for depression – what is the evidence for and against?’

This Editorial by Jeffrey CL Looi, Stephen Allison, Tarun Bastiampillai, Steve Kisely, Paul A Maguire , Katrina Anderson, and Gin S Malhi* was published in Australasian Psychiatry, 6 September 2024. … Continue reading ‘Deprescribing antidepressants for depression – what is the evidence for and against?’

Doctors rarely understand how influence really works

This opinion piece by Dr Margaret McCartney was published in the Guardian, 28 August 2024: Shouldn’t we be able to trust doctors to give us independent advice? Earlier this year, … Continue reading Doctors rarely understand how influence really works

“Generally regarded as high quality meetings”

I recently shared material from the BAP Summer Meeting 2024. I am not on social media but I understand that the evidence I shared was widely discussed. I have since … Continue reading “Generally regarded as high quality meetings”

‘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’