The consent forms that people sign before participating in research are widely considered difficult to understand and sometimes inaccurate.

Lisa Cosgrove, a psychologists at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, is one of many critics that say there are damaging conflicts of interest in the financial ties between drug companies and leaders who revise psychiatric diagnoses, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manuel of Mental Disorders (DSM-V), as well as guidelines on the best treatments.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The American Medical Association (AMA) presented New York physician Paul Appelbaum, M.D., with an award for his excellent leadership and dedication to the principles of medical ethics. Dr.

Mental incapacity missed by docs It's bad enough to be a patient in a hospital.