Krugman on Conflicts of Interest in Medicine

Paul Krugman in today's New York Times (fee to view) uses the AtriCure story at Cleveland Clinic to launch what he promises will be a series of columns on how to end conflicts of interest in medicine. Hopefully, he'll start touting some of the reforms people have been talking about, especially setting up an independent institute to conduct FDA registration trials and definitive trials for testing drugs' safety and effectiveness.