{"id":604901,"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.com\/index\/604901","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's nursing homes. \"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.\"<\/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\"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.\"<\/p>\n    <p>According to ProPublica\/Tribune, several physicians have questioned the results of Reinstein's studies.\u00a0\"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's published studies. 'Once you know that he has done a study that has been discredited,' Kassirer said, 'you have to ask yourself about all other studies done'\"\u00a0(Jewett and Roe, 11\/10).<\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/_kr7Z5J7DnI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2xmt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}