Below the New York Times provides a summary of Crawford's selective disclosure and concealment of his financial holdings while he was
Commissioner, noting Crawford's ignoble tenure:
Success in academic psychiatry is not measured in the improvement of patients' mental health, but rather in quantifiable commercial tender.How many grants one brings to the university, how many publications one churns out each year, and how many corporate and professional advisory boards one serves on–and how much money one…
An investigative report in Mercury News (below) focuses on Stanford University department heads, associate deans and other leaders because “these are senior people who set the tone at the medical school and are role models for junior faculty members.”
"The subpoena shows that the government is investigating Guidant for possible violations of health care statutes
"32% of the advertisements [in peer reviewed journals] misled readers regarding efficacy, 40% did not provide balanced descriptions of the side effects, and 44% could lead to improper prescribing if the physician did not use other sources of information regarding the drug."
"The internal Medtronic documents filed as part of the suit offer an unusually detailed glimpse of the intense campaign that device makers wage to win doctors’ loyalty."
Medical Costs: “It’s a broken system. And at some point, it will fall apart" – Conflicts of Interest – NYT Thu, 22 Sep 2005 Medical device manufacturers have taken a leaf from pharmaceutical companies–they too bribe doctors to use their products. The New York Times repors about one such case…
FDA Had Report of Heart Device failures Mon, 12 Sep 2005 A series of irresponsible national policies put corporate interests above public safety undermining the health and lives of American citizens. The world witnessed the consequences of those irresponsible policies: namely, a colossal break down in the nation’s homeland security…
