Psychiatry’s “Bible” Panel Comes Under Fire for Funding and Gifts

<p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1072708/full" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Pharmaceutical companies frequently pay doctors</a>, and research indicates that these payments&nbsp;<em>have an impact on doctors&rsquo; prescription practices</em>. Expressly, doctors&nbsp;<strong>may prescribe more expensive name-bran</strong>d medications over low-cost medications, as well as&nbsp;<strong>more payer-company pharmaceuticals</strong>. How do these physicians receive &ldquo;payments&rdquo; from these companies?</p> <p>The practice of providing everything from&nbsp;<em>computers to expensive medical textbooks, seminar speaking fees, research funding, lavish trips, meals</em>, and other incentives was supposed to have been capped at about $25 years ago. Now,&nbsp;<em>research has uncovered a most disturbing place</em>&nbsp;where this practice can have an enormous influence on the&nbsp;<strong>diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders</strong>, and it relates to their holy book,&nbsp;</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/beingwell/psychiatrys-bible-panel-comes-under-fire-for-funding-and-gifts-cf46f2d27e12"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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