The upside of blowing the whistle on what you think is wrongdoing is that you can make some serious money doing it. The downside, as Pfizer's Peter Rost is finding out, is that no one at the company wants to have anything to do with you (frankly...

Another goodie from Anne Taylor-Vaisey: Singapore Med J. 2005 Mar;46(3):108-14; quiz 115. ...

It's available at http://ap.psychiatryonline.org/current.shtml. A few articles that looked interesting to me were: ...

An update on this post about Maryland physician and high-ranking Medicare officia, Sean Tunis' faking his CME records. According to the Baltimore Sun, Tunis ...

I guess I'm not alone in loving physician bloggers (for some of my favorites, check the list on the right): There's an interesting article in the LA Times about the phenomenon. These personal glimpses into what docs and other healthcare providers...

From the Medical Journal of Australia: Research integrity and pharmaceutical industry sponsorship. (Thanks to Anne Taylor-Vaisey for the pointer.)

This dovetails so well with the current push in CME for team-based training: reverse mentoring, where a person higher in the hierarchy is taken under the wing of someone further down the ladder. The example in the article is at a pharmaceutical...

There's a very interesting article in Slate.com called, Spin Doctors: How drug companies keep tabs on physicians. It takes you through how weekly prescriber reports are created, and how companies use these reports to learn what each doc in a...

A reader recently pointed me toward a few posts on the Health Care Renewal blog: ...

According to the Seattle Times, physicians are being wooed by Wall Street as well as pharma. While this probably won't have much impact on CME, I find it an, um, interesting trend. A snip: ...