Josef Witt-Doerring on the FDA and psychiatry
Josef Witt-Doerring, a psychiatrist and former FDA medical officer, argues that US drug regulation is failing the people it is meant to protect.
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A former FDA medical officer
Josef Witt-Doerring is a psychiatrist and a former medical officer at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US medicines regulator. In this interview he argues that the regulatory system is failing the people it is meant to protect.
Drawing on his time at the FDA, he says drug companies influence medical research, dominate academic psychiatry and distort informed consent. The interview also covers Post-Finasteride Syndrome (PFS) and Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD).
What the interview covers
The video on YouTube is divided into chapters:
- 00:45 His background in psychiatry and at the FDA.
- 05:30 Why, in his view, academic psychiatry protects the way things are.
- 12:00 How he says drug companies influence research and medical education.
- 19:40 Why he believes regulators ignore harm from drugs.
- 27:00 The role he sees for cognitive dissonance in medicine.
- 34:15 PFS and PSSD, and why he says they need real recognition.
- 42:00 What he thinks needs to change.
- 50:00 His call to action for patients and the public.
Thank you to Josef Witt-Doerring for this interview. It was recorded by Moral Medicine, who have filmed more than ninety of these conversations.
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