More Med School Profs Behaving Badly: Professor Lila Nachtigall
New York University professor of obstetrics and gynecology Lila Nachtigall, whom I mentioned recently, said nice things about estrogen replacement therapy to a Newsday reporter. The story fails to say that she gets money and ghostwriting from Wyeth, which makes the pill used in that therapy.
September 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Your link is not working, there is an extra “h” at the end of the url. The corret URL is
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/reporter_fed_pill_story_swallo.php
September 12th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I wonder if med school profs are worse than other profs because they typically have to raise much or most of their salaries. I know at the Colorado med school, professors had to raise 75% of their salaries on their own.
My experience with a friend who had unexplained stomach pain was instructive. She saw 6 “experts”, 3 who worked for fixed salaries at institutions (Kaiser, Stanford, etc.) and 3 who were in the marketplace getting paid based on what they brought in each year. The three who were on fixed salaries were professionally cordial, and openly admitted that they could not say with confidence what was causing her pain. The three who were not on fixed salaries were very touchy feely and charming and spoke with complete confidence about the cause.
I don’t think this was accidental; I’d love to see formal research on this…
September 12th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Timothy, I wonder who should do the formal research - someone on a fixed salary or someone who is paid for the results?
September 12th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
[…] In the comments, Timothy Beneke wrote: My experience with a friend who had unexplained stomach pain was instructive. She saw 6 “experts”, 3 who worked for fixed salaries at institutions (Kaiser, Stanford, etc.) and 3 who were in the marketplace getting paid based on what they brought in each year. The three who were on fixed salaries were professionally cordial, and openly admitted that they could not say with confidence what was causing her pain. The three who were not on fixed salaries were very touchy-feely and charming and spoke with complete confidence about the cause. […]
September 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
[…] Whereas medical school professors haven’t managed to figure that ghostwriting is plagiarism (taking someone’s words and ideas as yours without acknowledgment). And it happens all the time. NYU med school Professor Lila Nachtigall, as I’ve noted, considered the deed so minor she forgot that she’d done it. Apparently using a different word confuses them. A recent article in Nature reveals the befuddlement of the entire medical establishment about this. We’re not sure what to do about it, journal editors say. As Tony Soprano’s mom would say: Poor you. […]