this is disturbing on a bunch of levels

why didn't kuklo use his OWN name (i have to say if he ALLEGEDLY submitted the article under others names)? how much was kuklo paid by medtronic (allegedly, although i think that part has been proven)? were the actual findings about infuse true or were THOSE altered? really why try to eff up another doctor's (who was supposedly YOUR BUD) name? why didn't the medical journal further check the story?

at any rate, SHOUT OUT to dr andersen - who currently is in iraq.


Discredited Research Study Stuns an Ex-Army Doctor’s Colleagues
By BARRY MEIER and DUFF WILSON

Dr. Romney C. Andersen, a Walter Reed Army Medical Center surgeon, was surprised last summer when his neighbor, a fellow doctor, congratulated him on a new medical journal study bearing his name.

“What study?” Dr. Andersen asked.

Soon, he was not the only person asking questions. Army officials, alerted by Dr. Andersen, began an investigation. They uncovered an apparent case of falsified research by a doctor who had befriended Dr. Andersen when they both worked at Walter Reed, treating American soldiers severely injured in Iraq.

The full report of that Army investigation, recently obtained by The New York Times, provides an unusually detailed anatomy of a suspected case of medical research fraud — one all the more disturbing because it occurred at the nation’s premier military research hospital................

...............The disputed journal article was written by a former Army orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Timothy R. Kuklo, who is now a medical professor at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Kuklo, the investigation found, forged the signatures of Dr. Andersen and other Army doctors on his study and never showed it to them before it was published...................

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Christoph Bangert for The New York Times

Dr. Romney C. Andersen was surprised on being congratulated for a medical journal study that he didn’t write. He notified the Army.