That’s what Dan Carlat, a Boston psychiatrist, does in his increasingly popular newsletter. A former mouthpiece for industry, he eschewed the extra payments and perks after deciding that industry influence was leading psychiatrists astray.

“Instead of getting educated about psychotherapy, about how to better manage our practices, about epidemiology and the public health concerns of underserved populations, what we’re getting is lecture after lecture about how to diagnose depression and use antidepressants to treat it; how to diagnose insomnia and use sleeping pills to treat it; how to diagnose bipolar disorder and use mood stabilizers to treat it,” he tells The Boston Globe.

This is an interesting choice of stories to run in the city’s big paper this morning, given that the BIO convention is town. Sends a rather uncomfortable message to everyone heading toward the convention center right now.

Further reading….
The full story in The Globe;
The Carlat Report.
[tags]Conflicts Of Interest, The Carlat Report[/tags]