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Payments from Industry Associated with Greater Medicare Prescribing Costs (2016)(journals.plos.org)
39 points by cassowary37 9y ago|3 comments
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Where study sections go wrong: The Four Reviewers of the Apocalypse(brainconspiracy.wordpress.com)
2 points by cassowary37 9y ago|0 comments
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by cassowary37 9y ago
sure - they're the most common NIH grant mechanism - generally 4 or 5 years @ up to $500k/year (though they can be smaller, which NIH program officers always appreciate). If you plot the number of NIH grants per investigator, ther
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by cassowary37 9y ago
not sure this is entirely fair. While there's certainly some cronyism (see my earlier comment), study sections are mostly about funding the safest science - i.e., the project with the least chance of failure and the fewest flaws. But
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by cassowary37 9y ago
Over the past decade I've sat on 10+ NIH study sections, and chaired a few. This commentary is spot on. Consider the response to a flaw in a grant. For a newer investigator or one no one has heard of, there will be much hemming and haw
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by cassowary37 9y ago
Yes. This is one reason I bothered to comment. Psychiatrists who step into the public space bear a particular obligation both to advocate for our patients and to push back against misinformation.
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by cassowary37 9y ago
Professor of psychiatry here - I've spent the past 20 years trying to help folks with depression, and related illnesses, and trying to study these diseases at a genetic level. I suspect this will get me down-voted as I know the medical
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Payments from Industry Associated with Greater Medicare Prescribing Costs (2016)(journals.plos.org)
1 points by cassowary37 10y ago|0 comments
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by cassowary37 12y ago
Okay, judgmental 20- and 30-somethings, 40-year-old here with 2 kids. My wife and I both work full time; doing so allows us to do things like go on vacations with our kids, live in an expensive city, and pay tuition. If our kids are going t
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by cassowary37 13y ago
I think the distinction is that we /often/ choose not to have a control, for a multitude of reasons, so as a cause for concern it's highly nonspecific. Much like the critique of small samples - there are underpowered 5000-pat
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by cassowary37 13y ago
I think this conflates poorly designed studies and preliminary or hypothesis-generating studies. If not for uncontrolled proof-of-concept studies, or pseudorandomized designs such as those used for post marketing studies, we would a) not h
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by cassowary37 13y ago
A consideration of the economics would suggest that any doc who trained in the last two decades isn't in it for the money - the ROI on an MD is far less than most other advanced degrees. If we wanted to be wealthy, with the grades and