Mad in America
AUGUST 9, 2025
I was just a copywriter working in pharmaceutical advertising. The rise of atypical antipsychotics was a business and marketing phenomenon—driven in part by a wave of pharmaceutical mergers in the 1990s. I didn’t set out to shape the field of psychiatry. The agency was in Midtown Manhattan. The client was Johnson & Johnson.
Ask a Manager
MARCH 27, 2017
I once supervised a young person who was fresh out of college and in his first full-time job. It was a healthcare-related nonprofit, and the articles indicated that the organization was funded and heavily influenced by corporate pharmaceutical companies despite portraying itself as an advocate for patients.
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Mad in America
AUGUST 7, 2024
An influential voice in bioethics, Elliott is known for his critical examination of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The licensing board suspended his license for a short period of time, made him practice under the supervision of someone else, and ordered him to take an ethics course. I was stunned.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
First, I found a supervising psychiatrist with tapering experience, which is vanishingly rare in Australia. This is not to let the pharmaceutical companies, the government drug-approving bodies, and the doctors who write the scripts without thinking off the hook. There are no studies, not yet. I have no illusions about the road ahead.
Mad in America
APRIL 24, 2024
The middle class has come to understand genetics, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals and is better educated in science and technology. Regarding treatments, you have yourself written that psycho-pharmaceuticals have been found to be a lot less effective and have severe adverse effects. the UK, and Canada into the Global South?
Mad in America
MAY 15, 2024
It’s five years of study and in the last year, you work as a psychologist under supervision. Medical school is six years and during the last one to two years, you work as a doctor under supervision. Siem: You don’t serve the pharmaceutical company who might be paying you on the side. You don’t serve the hospital.
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
One of these studies, sponsored of course by a pharmaceutical company, was conducted by the Kansas University Medical School, Wichita branch, and I attended, along with a group of local psychologists, a presentation of this study in progress by one of the staff psychologists who was one of the researchers and CBT therapists.
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