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...Addressing a weekly clinic for “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Medicine,” a required introductory course for first-year medical and dental students, Medical School professor Paul G. G. Richardson was accompanied by a patient diagnosed with myeloma, a potentially deadly blood cancer...
...patient was being successfully treated with a bortezomib-based therapy, a drug marketed as Velcade by the Cambridge-based Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Students said that during the clinic discussion, Richardson suggested bortezomib can now be used as a first-line treatment—meaning that physicians can prescribe use of the drug at diagnosis, rather than only as a second or third-line therapy when the disease has recurred...
...Intrigued by his presentation, several students later looked up some of his peer-reviewed articles and found that Richardson was on Millennium’s advisory board—a potential conflict of interest that was not disclosed during the session with Richardson and his patient...
...Richardson, a physician and clinical researcher at the Harvard-affiliated Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, did not violate any existing policies. In an interview, he said that he did not disclose his ties to Millennium because he wanted to keep the discussion centered on the patient and because it would have been insensitive to bring up the tie with Millennium in front...
...layman, David Shore, and although the show is purportedly inspired by medical columns from The New York Times and The New Yorker, it isn’t exactly clear on what distant reality the show is based. Unlike in “ER,” where innumerable patients must be treated at a moment’s notice, House is able to spend days diagnosing one patient and doing several trillion dollars worth of tests. In real life, hundreds of people would have died, waiting in triage, while House made cranky jokes about a man whose skin had miraculously...