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What makes for a ‘good’ severance package?

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Credit Suisse also paid for six months of his $800 monthly healthcare. Besides payment and restrictive clauses like non-disparagement, there are potential benefits, like continued healthcare coverage via COBRA. Though severance agreements differ by industry and company, most include the same basic components.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University, her research addresses the ethical and medical-legal issues that arise in organized psychiatry because of academic-industry relationships. One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

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Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst. They are not medical diseases.

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A Simple Workaround to Overcome the Bureaucratic Mindset

Tanveer Naseer

Russell is an educational psychologist, author, executive coach and management consultant whose clients include Fortune 500 executives in aerospace, healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, information technology, telecommunications and oil and gas. The following is a guest post by Russell Bishop.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

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I didn’t know that I had the legal right to informed consent when I was first prescribed the SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) antidepressant Paxil two decades ago. Although this was a medical malpractice case, Andy Vickery is no stranger to setting legal precedents. I just “blindly trusted” my family doctor.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. If one reads the ADM literature, it is quite apparent that the pharmaceutical industry—with the help of psychiatry—since day one has been involved in a cover up of the dangerousness of these drugs. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6) appeared first on Mad In America.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In marketing any product, from laundry detergent to prescription drugs to luxury automobiles, marketers know the key is to keep it simple, and the pharmaceutical industry certainly has learned this lesson well. In this blog, he begins a discussion on depression and antidepressant drugs.