http://mindhacks.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/ Neuroscience and psychology news and views. Fri, 24 May 2013 17:03:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://mindhacks.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7313 Sat, 30 Jun 2007 21:31:52 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7313 While I am concerned about the influence of big pharma on psychiatry, I was taken aback by the figures presented in the Times story. I did a little checking and found that the Times article grossly misrepresented the facts as presented in the original Vermont report. The $45,000 per year figure is for the top 11 psychiatrists who are recipients of pharma money. The report does not indicate the average or median for psychiatrists across the state, but extrapolating from the report figures it looks like $1000.00 per year is probably more typical and closer to the median figure for all psychiatrists. The mean is probably in the neighborhood of $4,000 per psychiatrist, a figure that is probably skewed upward by a heavily lopsided distribution of money and fees paid to top recipients.
For further more explanation:
http://drx.typepad.com/psychotherapyblog/2007/06/with-vermonts-d.html

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7312 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:48:07 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7312 Both the plural and singular form are acceptable in an international context:
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutgrammar/data

]]> http://mindhacks.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7311 Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:24:10 +0000 http://mindhacksblog.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/psychiatrists-top-list-of-drug-maker-gift-recipients/#comment-7311 Grammatical note — The data are (data = plural) only from two states.

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