… [M]ore than a dozen of the school’s doctors were paid speakers in apparent violation of [Stanford’s conflict of interest] policy.
… Dr. Alan Yeung, vice chairman of Stanford’s department of medicine and chief of cardiovascular medicine, who was paid $53,000 from Eli Lilly & Co. since 2009. In an e-mail, Yeung said he quit speaking for the company this fall.
“I take full responsibility for this error,” he said. “Even though I felt that these activities are worthwhile educational endeavors, the perceived monetary conflict may be too great.”
Child psychiatrist Hans Steiner was paid $109,000 by Lilly to deliver talks about a drug for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. In an e-mail, Steiner said he spoke in “very rural and other impoverished settings which only have limited access to experts like me.”…
Those poor schlubs! You would deny them experts like me!
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The Stanford University Motto:
Adipiscitor pecuniam medicam cum ex digitis mortuis nostris revulseris.
(You’ll get our drug money when you pry it from our cold dead fingers.)
December 20th, 2010 at 8:50AM
I thought it was “adipiscitor pecuniam medicam cum ex digitis mortuis nostris revulseris”
perhaps “pecuniam de apothecariis acceptam” than “pecuniam medicam”?
December 20th, 2010 at 9:00AM
I simply used Google Translator, tp. I had three years of Latin in high school, but this one was way beyond me.
I’ll substitute your first suggestion for what I originally wrote.
December 20th, 2010 at 2:05PM
Google Latin would have been smacked silly by my high school Latin teacher.
“adipiscitor” is a rather grand “second imperative”–“thou shalt obtain”
What do the Classics types think?