The Minnesota Payola For Docs Documents Now Online

At Stir Crazy, where Christin Light did a great job of requesting the documents under Minnesota public records law. These same documents underlie recent reporting by the New York Times, which I have posted on before. I haven't looked these documents over myself--haven't the time--but based upon the paper's reporting, I really think we have a payola system going on here. Just like in radio. Something along those lines at any rate.

Keep in mind that these documents report on all medical doctors not just psych docs. Christin reports that Eli Lilly--King of the Psych Meds--had over 1,300 payments for $4.2 million over nine years. Someone ought to take a look at these documents and figure out how much of Lilly's dough went straight to psych docs.