Remembering Dr Bernard Carroll

Dr Bernard Carroll passed away on September 10, 2018.  Dr Carroll had a distinguished career, so it was a surprise and delight that he also chose to be a stalwartHealth Care Renewal blogger.  He was with us since 2005, contributing insightful, pithy, provocative and important posts.  He also authored some of our most widely read posts.  Most viewed was:JAMA Jumps the Shark.  His most recent post wasCorruption of Clinical Trials Report: A Proposal.  All his posts can be foundhere.His obituary just appearedin the British Medical Journal. It beganA pioneer in biological psychiatry, more recently Bernard Carroll ( ‘‘Barney’’) became a withering critic of its compromised ethics and corruption by industry.He was a scientific skepticA rigorous scientific sceptic, even about his own work, he refrained from claiming that the DST explained the aetiology of melancholia. He was critical of ill informed challenges to its clinical uses but opposed exaggerated claims for its role as a screening test.He was a renowned teacher, mentor, and academic leaderBarney was a great clinical teacher and mentor, who never hesitated to say: ' I don ’t know the answer to that—let’s look into it. ' No one had a better command of the scientific literature or was better able to translate it to the complex exigencies of clinical practice. By his quiet example, Barney influenced hundreds of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and nurses, as well a...
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