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Posted on Wednesday 1 January 2014


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If you’ve clicked on your usual morning fare, you’ve probably already seen this announcement in the place of Pharmalot this morning. I must say, I’ve been kind of uneasy since Ed’s last post about Compounding has been sitting there for days without his usual patter about taking off for the holidays – but I didn’t expect this. I don’t have any information about it because there’s not one of his usual (back story) links that have been so invaluable over the years to catch me up when I got confused. Besides reporting the important stories, Ed has a amazing knack for sewing them together so the whole picture comes into focus. I did what people do in such circumstances. I clicked on Pharmagossip where Jack Friday said:
But Ed Silverman lives on!
Ed Silverman can still be reached by writing to pharmalot@gmail.com
Then I became aware of the song playing in my head, Joni Mitchell’s Big Yellow Taxi [1970], and looked it up on YouTube:
Don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you got ’til it’s gone.
They paved paradise,
Put up a parking lot.
I thought about the exit of the Bereavement Exclusion from the DSM-5, and I looked up something timeless just to see if it’s still there:
by Erich Lindemann
American Journal of Psychiatry. 1944 101:141-148.
Did I mention having a few conspiracy theories and flights of fantasy about how to fix it? I don’t know what this is about. I expect somebody will sleuth it out, or even better, Ed will let us know. For the moment, I’m going to have my first cup of coffee of the New Year [that I usually have reading Pharmalot] and let it sink in without trying to correct for non-random missingness. It never works anyway…
  1.  
    Bernard Carroll
    January 1, 2014 | 2:59 PM
     

    I had a premonition that something like this was coming… ever since the corporate types fixed the original blog that wasn’t broken. They didn’t care enough to do it right.

  2.  
    Robot
    January 1, 2014 | 4:19 PM
     

    http://pharmamkting.blogspot.com/2013/12/where-have-all-critical-pharma-bloggers.html

    Hope that helps.
    Ed Silverman reply on the article was “I’ll let you know where I show up next. Ed S”

  3.  
    Annonymous
    January 2, 2014 | 6:24 PM
     

    And all the old Pharmalot posts are inaccessible. What a loss.

  4.  
    Nancy Wilson
    January 2, 2014 | 8:00 PM
     

    Ed has the right stuff. He’ll be back….

    http://youtu.be/cE2t6Sg_H74

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