Sunday, January 6, 2019

Disclosing Conflicts of Interest on Twitter is Security Theater at its Finest

Conflicts of interest (COIs) have been in the news lately, with the resignations and public mea culpas of several prominent figures over undisclosed conflicts of interest in journal articles.  Memorial Sloan Kettering is one of the two top cancer hospitals in the United States: unequaled by anyone other than MD Anderson in it's advanced, cutting edge care. The Chief Medical Officer of that institution spectacularly resigned after failing to note millions of dollars in payments by pharmaceutical companies he had worked with in journal articles which he wrote.

Now I will disclose here that I am a Baylor College of Medicine General Surgery resident who will rotate at MD Anderson.