{"id":40058,"date":"2009-11-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"ab772ee5-d299-4ca8-9867-b1213ddae0a3"},"modified":"2009-11-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T14:00:00","slug":"psychiatrist-delivers-high-risk-meds-poor-care-in-chicago-nursing-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/40058","title":{"rendered":"Psychiatrist Delivers High-Risk Meds, Poor Care In Chicago Nursing Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/feature\/michael-reinstein-chicago-clozapine\" >ProPublica<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/health\/chi-drugs-seroquel-reinsteinnov11,0,6067737.story\" >The Chicago Tribune<\/a>\u00a0examine the case of\u00a0a controversial psychiatrist who delivered an anti-psychotic medication to thousands of Medicaid patients in\u00a0Chicago&#8217;s nursing homes. &#8220;Dr. Michael Reinstein is one of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities. But he is trailed by lawsuits and complaints while getting government reimbursement for seeing a large number of patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reinstein received payments totalling nearly $500,000 over 10 years from the drugmaker AstraZeneca, and published several studies promoting its drug Seroquel.\u00a0&#8220;During that period, Reinstein also faced accusations that he overmedicated and neglected patients who took a variety of drugs. But his research and promotional work went on, including studies and presentations examining many of the antipsychotics he prescribed on his daily rounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to ProPublica\/Tribune, several physicians have questioned the results of Reinstein&#8217;s studies.\u00a0&#8220;Dr. Jerome Kassirer, a professor at Tufts University School of Medicine and a former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, read the AstraZeneca e-mails at the request of ProPublica and the Tribune. He concluded that editors of medical journals should investigate Reinstein&#8217;s published studies. &#8216;Once you know that he has done a study that has been discredited,&#8217; Kassirer said, &#8216;you have to ask yourself about all other studies done'&#8221;\u00a0(Jewett and Roe, 11\/10).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/_kr7Z5J7DnI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ProPublica\/The Chicago Tribune\u00a0examine the case of\u00a0a controversial psychiatrist who delivered an anti-psychotic medication to thousands of Medicaid patients in\u00a0Chicago&#8217;s nursing homes. &#8220;Dr. Michael Reinstein is one of the most prolific providers of psychiatric care in Chicago-area nursing homes and mental health facilities. But he is trailed by lawsuits and complaints while getting government reimbursement for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}