By Deborah Brauser
Medscape Medical News
Originally published March 14, 2013
Once again, psychiatrists top the updated Dollars for Docs list of large payments from pharmaceutical companies to individual US clinicians.
On March 12, the investigative journalism group ProPublica released the names of the 22 physicians who, since 2009, received more than $500,000 from these companies in speaking and consulting fees. Mirroring the organization's first report released in 2010, psychiatrists dominate the list.
This time, the top recipient was Jon Draud, MD, medical director of the psychiatric and addiction medicine program at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and from the Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro.
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APA Reaction
"My immediate, honest response was that this boggles the mind," James Scully, MD, CEO of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), told Medscape Medical News.
The entire story is here.
Thanks to Ed Zuckerman for this story.
