Episode 182 • • 27:48 - 32:47
182: Magnets In Space
Schering-Plough, Physician Speaker Bureaus, Medical Marketing
The Carlat Psychiatry Blog exposed how Schering-Plough recruits doctors for "Speaker Bureaus" to promote drugs like Saphris. Physicians are offered $3,000 for training and up to $1,600 per 45-minute presentation, with annual earnings capped at $170,000. The hosts argue this system incentivizes doctors to over-prescribe medications to children for financial gain.