NEWS TO END THE WEEK
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In the ever contentious area of TORT REFORM, an Oklahoma senator aims to halve contingency fees (although his state’s current fee allows up to 50%).
Billion-Dollar Verdicts are a thing of the past, according to Bloomberg News.
And the nation’s preeminent medical journal, The New England Journal of Medicine, has announced a change in its policy regarding disclosure of its authors’ conflicts of interest, according to today’s NY Times.
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throckmorton said:
The New England Journal of Medicine seems to be the preeminent medical journal only for those that are not in medicine. In fact, I cant find a single physician in our area that actually gets the thing. We rely on the peer reviewed journals in our specialty journals which carry the real weight of medicine. The NEJM is more of an opinion piece of the Massachusetts Medical Society but seems to be the prefered medical journal for reporters and attorneys.
It tends to be very political, opinionated and lacking in statistical significance. It is not supprising that they are now choosing to release conflict of interest information, they only problem is that they should have been doing it for years as have the “real preeminent medical journals”.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:34 am -
throckmorton said:
Oh, I forgot. With its “tort reforms” Texas has seen a huge surge in physicans moving into or back to the state. Many of these physicians are moving from Oklahoma. Also, many patients from Oklahoma are choosing to go to Texas as well as the choice of physicians is better and there are high risk OBs, neurosurgeons etc.
January 9th, 2009 at 10:38 am -
Andrew Barovick said:
Regarding your comment about the NEJM, see the comment made by Supremacy Claus under “Recent Comments.” Your opinion is a bit more restrained than his (or hers).
January 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm