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The Dangers of Medical Ghostwriting...

by Mark McClure
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Those who ghostwrite for Doctors and other medical professionals might want to check this article out:

British doctor faces action over claims of 'ghost writing' for US drug company | Science | guardian.co.uk
#dangers #ghostwriting #medical
  • Profile picture of the author Bev Clement
    There have been a lot of problems for medical people who have hired ghostwriters to act for them. The biggest problem has been when the medical person puts their name to the white paper without reading it.

    One reason specialised ghostwriters should be used, and one area I wouldn't do myself.

    If a pharmacy company, doctor or other medical person offered a million bucks to write for them I would say no.
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  • Profile picture of the author Tsnyder
    Absolutely right, Bev. The same holds true with just about
    any regulated industry in the U.S. There are so many compliance
    issues that it would be a great disservice to accept a writing
    assignment in an industry where specialized regulatory knowledge
    is essential.

    I can write legal papers with the best of them but I still run them
    by a lawyer friend who specializes in regulatory issues pertaining to
    the practice of law.

    Tsnyder
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Blankenship,RN
    Being a Registered Nurse, I have to agree that you need to be very careful when dealing with medical-related content. That is the reason that I started writing professionally, as I do know what I am talking about in the medical/health articles that I write.

    For quite a while I have tried to warn people that you could be held liable if you use content that is not factual and someone is injured or worse, dies.

    The fact is that you are responsible for any medical content that you have on your site.

    Bev, you are very smart to steer clear of the medical arena.

    It is the one area that you really must know what you are talking about.

    Choose your medical content providers carefully.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bev Clement
    I am in the health field, but that is totally different from writing for medical companies.

    We have written both in the health and legal fields, but we always write as lay people not as experts. Our health books have been read by medical professionals, and they are impressed with the information in them.
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  • Profile picture of the author derekwong28
    I think what you have got here is a highly specific situation that does not necessarily apply to medical ghostwriting as a whole.

    What you have got there is a highly reputable professor who agreed to act as the first (most important) author for a study by a drug company to be published in a highly reputable journal. By doing this, the drug hopes that it will make a big impact on that particular medical field afterwards.

    This sort of malpractice is widespread and there had been many allegations of corruption and blackmail. Because of the potentially huge impact on medical practice, the British Medical takes a very dim view of such practice and doctors have been struck off in the past for falsifying clinical trial data.
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