http://exhibits.library.stonybrook.edu/mfp/files/original/73249549cd5c154bd13b2759fad8c1df.pdf 723b132fbdec8ccc43117a4136f3b9b4 PDF Text Text OcTober 9, l97| Prof. Alfred M. Freedman Chairman, DeparTmenT of PsychlaTry New York Medical College Dear Al: The following noTes are wriTTen in response To your informaTion for as To my relaTionship wiTh L. Bucci, M.D. requesT l firsT meT Luigi when T0 The DeparTmenT, and his inTeresT me To requesT his appoinTmenT To my he applied for an appolnTmenT in psychoTropic drugs allowed division. His firsT assignmenT was an evaluaTion of The duraTion and poTency of fluphenazine enanThaTe compared wiTh oral fluphenazine; and This laTer was augmenTed by a comparison wiTh fluphenazine decanoaTe. As is our cusTom, we esTablished a proTocoi for The admission of paTlenTs To The program, Their supervision and raTings, and The Types of evaluaTions required. MosT criTical in such evaluaTions, is The adminisTraTion of The proposed dosages for The proposed lengThs of Time, wiTh The physician allowed To use his judgmenT in each case as To The From The very ouTseT, Luigi had proper dosage To be deployed. more difficulTy Than Two oTher TherapisTs (Maria Fuchs and Jovan Simeon) in carrying ouT The proTocol. The dosages were more variable Than ThaT of The oTher physicians; There were repeaTed supplemenTaTions wiTh oTher drugs, parTicularly MAO inhibiTors (despiTe proscripTion in The proTocol); and The records were mainTained in an idiosyncraTic meThod. aT LaboraTory TesTs were noT requesTed as required, and various Times, The duraTion of TreaTmenT was suffciienle aiTered ThaT The drug Trial Took anTicipaTed. many more monThs Than we had AT The end of The experimenT, we noTed ThaT The evaluaTion of secondary effecTs for Dr. Bucci's paTlenTs was aT IeasT Two Times ThaT of The oTher physicians. On examining The records and The available cases, we noTed a marked discrepancy beTween The evaluaTion criTeria he used, and Those of The resT of The sTaff. AfTer considerable review, l concluded ThaT The idiosyncraTic naTure of his judgmenTs was sufficienle differenT Than �"nv -vw,mw>n~ m-w—I—H—o-w my experience To ‘iw_mwww.’. -- mm w.wmmwwwvww i,” TVWV preclude his usefulness in of The Division of Biological PsychlaTry. The fl_»_r..i.,.._..........-.wv- research programs His opinions wiTh regard To The TreaTmenT of MAO inhibiTors are based on sTudies which he has published. i have read Two of These reporTs, and recall ThaT They failed To saTisfy my criTeria for an academic reporT—They were deficienT boTh in conTrols and in independenT evaluaTlons. psychoTic paTlenTs wiTh In adleion, i am aTTaching a xerox c0py of a reporT which he published from The work aT MeTropoiiytn HospiTai. i do noT recall seeing The proTocoi filed or approved, and I suspecT ThaT This sTudy was done conTrary To The rules of The school. This, despiTe, my urging him To file The becessary documenTs before a sTudy is conTemplaTed, parTicularly one ThaT is as unique as This one. On The posiTive side, i would recall To your aTTenTion his enThusiasm for Teaching and parTlculariy his drive To asserT The posiTion of psychopharmacoiogisT To The DepaTmenT. There was a disTincT dissoclaTion beTween his enThusiasm and his abiiiTy, and for This reason, i requesTed his Transfer from The research divisions and failed To supporT his requesT for promoTion. Sincerely yours, Max Fink, M.D. Professor of PsychlaTry - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Correspondence to: Freedman, Alfred M. 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