Pediatric Bipolar :"Dr. Biederman is not someone to jerk around. He is a very powerful national figure in child psych and has a very short fuse."

VIA retired psychiatrist and author of 1 Boring Old Man blog, a great article profiling the pediatric bipolar diagnosis KOL, Dr. Joseph Biederman. The snippet below is from an internal email regarding payment to Biederman from Janssen for a Grand Rounds Program, and upon non receipt of the $3000.00, Biederman had a fit, according to the email, described as a "tirade" and according to the email the author of the email and a drug rep took an "hour of verbal beating.I have never seen someone so angry."

From 1 Boring Old Man blog: (part of the document/email)

"After getting turned down for a grant, Biederman had a fit. "Dr. Biederman is not someone to jerk around. He is a very powerful national figure in child psych and has a very short fuse." This is the part that struck me, "Dr. Biederman is head of adolescent psych at MGH. Since that time, our business became non existant within his area of control." That was a few years earlier. So now in 1999, Janssen was apparently balking at paying him a stiff fee for a Grand Rounds program at UConn, and Biederman is having yet another fit. "… we have jerked him around. I am truly affraid of the repercussions." Apparently, the fee had been promised by a Janssen rep who was "… doing everything she could think of to get Dr. Biederman back in our graces."

The entire post is worth your time to read,"not someone to jerk around" as I have written about Biederman and his "God" complex for a long time, and I find Dr.Boring Old Man's post to be a great expose' --the over-rated, self-appointed, pharma paid, Grassley investigated, Harvard Mafia team of researchers that trials antipsychotics on kids such as Wozniak and Biederman, ala Seroquel and Risperdal. It's time for Biederman to be jerked from of his self-righteous throne.

It's a series of great posts

Update: Part 2 at Boring Old Man blog-Harvard for Sale

Part 3:Bipolar Kids COBY (Course and Outcome of Bipolar Youth

Part 4: Bipolar Kids: my take from COBY

Part 5: Harvard Acts news of Biederman's sanction arrives as he was reviewing articles about Childhood Bipolar

Part 6: Bipolar Kids: an all too familiar lingo

Part 7: Bipolar Kids: Biedermania and super angry/grouchy/cranky irritability-brilliant documentation of the bipolar child diagnosis evolution

Part 8: Bipolar Kids: postscript,detestable? Amazing! the retired psychiatrist connects it all together right down to Janssen, ghostwriting and more.