Comments for The Carlat CME Institute

Comment on Can Doctors Earn CME Credit By Teaching Courses? by MKSAP

MKSAP — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:52:22 +0000

Double dipping would be GREAT if it were allowed, haha! Thanks for the article.

Comment on CME Blog by Where Doctors Get Their Information « Thought Broadcast

Where Doctors Get Their Information « Thought Broadcast — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:31:46 +0000

[...] questionable. Also, lots of CMEs are funded by pharmaceutical or medical device manufacturers (see here), where bias can creep [...]

Comment on Pseudo CME about Pseudobulbar Affect by Sean Paul

Sean Paul — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:50:52 +0000

This is really a pity that this continues to happen. CME needs to be bias free!

Comment on The Gig is Up: The Sunshine Act Will Include CME Payments to Doctors by Postscript » Blog Archive » In this Season of Giving, CMS Shines a Light

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:41:49 +0000

[...] recent blog by Daniel Carlat looks at how this will affect disclosure of industry payments to continuing medical education companies that then pay doctors to [...]

Comment on Can Doctors Earn CME Credit By Teaching Courses? by Sana Johnson-Quijada

Sana Johnson-Quijada — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:21:59 +0000

really useful. thx

Comment on The CME Coalition: A New Voice in the CME Industry by “We’re Doctors. We Prescribe Drugs. That’s What We Do.” « Thought Broadcast

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:36:11 +0000

[...] in favor of a medication-oriented curriculum that could be obtained in a weekend seminar or in an industry-funded CME course, is an insult to our intelligence, and, potentially, the downfall of our [...]

Comment on National Lipid Association: Old School Conflicts of Interest by Anne Monahan

Anne Monahan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:13:05 +0000

It would really be helpful to know the names of ALL the panel members. You might find some readers with useful first hand experience of these doctors. I wouldn’t be surprised to find the name of a highly touted “lipid consultant” to whom I was referred. She walked in the room, prescription pad in hand and pen poised, and proceeded to write a Lipitor prescription for me within a minute of her arrival. Oh, the consult of one minute cost $175 and may have netted her a little sugar.

Comment on Pfizer Offers Goodies to Journalists by Michael S. Altus

Michael S. Altus — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 19:32:23 +0000

Sorry. I confused POLITICO with ProPublica.

Comment on Pfizer Offers Goodies to Journalists by Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS

Michael S. Altus, PhD, ELS — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:27:59 +0000

So if Pfizer is tossing money to the National Press Foundation, who is there to catch it? NPF board member John Harris,
Editor-in-Chief, POLITICO (http://nationalpress.org/about/our-board).

Comment on CME Message: Prescribe More EMSAM! by Daniel Carlat

Daniel Carlat — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:20:49 +0000

Susan, I see your point, which, as I understand it, is that if drug companies don’t fund education about MAOIs, then its unlikely anyone else will step up to the plate. You may be right. However, there are some non-industry funded alternatives. For example, see this recent article on MAOIs in the Cleveland Clinic Journal: http://www.ccjm.org/content/77/12/859.long. Most subscription newsletters, like mine and others, carry articles on MAOIs fairly regularly.

By the way, the point of my post was not to disparage the effectiveness of MAOIs or Emsam, but rather to point out that if we rely on people with vested interests to teach us about them, the information is likely to biased in subtle ways.