Psychiatrists seem to take the most pharmaceutical dollars:
As states begin to require that drug companies disclose their payments to doctors for lectures and other services, a pattern has emerged: psychiatrists earn more money from drug makers than doctors in any other specialty.
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Whatever happened to the “talkin cure”, that doesn’t rely on drugs for a cure for mental illness?
It’s always difficult to trust “impressions” but I have always been impressed with the rate at which Shrinks adopt new drugs. The new atypical antipsychotics just came in a wave. And of course all the patients are on Medicaid. Any correlation? In our state 8 of the top ten Medicaid pharma costs are psychiatric.
Talkin? No, you just see your shrink now for refills.
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