He was a newly qualified doctor researching at New York's Salk Institute, when The Andromeda Strain made him suddenly, dizzily, famous.
The man found a doctor who was open to the idea of performing a fecal transplant and waited six months while the doctor researched the procedure.
"The more our doctor researched it, the more impressed he was with this guy's credentials and his reputation," Cashman said of Wehling.
Dr. John Halpern, assistant professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and probably the most notable doctor researching peyote today, said that the cactus "contains mescaline, which is a classical psychedelic ethylamine hallucinogen".
"Our Daily Meds" also advocates more supervision of doctors' research articles, many of which are ghostwritten by drug company spokesmen.
Critics also say that the doctors' research implies that adults should be condemned to a lifetime of wedded misery.
But a careful balance is crucial to reward doctors' research achievements without letting it define their clinical careers.
Worried that this money could taint doctors' research plans or clinical judgment, government agencies, medical journals and universities have been forced to look more closely at deal details.
Worried that this money could taint doctors' research plans or clinical judgment, government agencies, medical journals and universities have been looking more closely at the deals.
Guidelines restricting the use of industry money to support medical journal articles or doctors' research have come into wide acceptance within the last several years, to try to minimize the influence of companies' marketing on medical practices.
On Tuesday, a Chinese newspaper alleged that Alcon paid doctors "research fees" through a third-party for fake clinical trials that never took place.
