UD‘s buddy Carl Elliott puts the ongoing, er, difficulties of a University of Wisconsin professor in perspective.
UD‘s buddy Carl Elliott puts the ongoing, er, difficulties of a University of Wisconsin professor in perspective.
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Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
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George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
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[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
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Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
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If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:03AM
There’s the famous (and probably too good to be true) line from an old-time politician: “It’s not a conflict of interest– it doesn’t conflict with any of my interests.”
January 3rd, 2012 at 8:59AM
Or you could go with Scott Adams:
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-04-17/
January 3rd, 2012 at 10:28AM
this assumes 1) that the docs have read such literature and 2) that such readings would have a direct impact on other behaviors even tho there is much empirical research on cognitive biases that suggest that this is not the case, and yet many academics seem to ignore such studies and round we go…
January 3rd, 2012 at 12:27PM
Not sure what you mean, dmf. The direct effect of financial incentives on physician behavior is quite clear, and the indirect effect has many pathways. The literature is among the weakest, while the impacts through conferences and speaking engagements, “expert” opinion, peer influences, and panels, medical education and training, etc are much more powerful ways of changing behavior and all involve other doctors serving as the linchpin.
January 3rd, 2012 at 1:50PM
not questioning the influence of monied interests on medicine, am questioning the impact of empirical/academic studies on daily professional practices.