Comments for 1 Boring Old Man http://1boringoldman.com All Mickey, All the Time Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:05:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Comment on wisdom in his pages… by Stan http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/06/wisdom-in-his-pages/#comment-218647 Stan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:05:06 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19268#comment-218647 addition to comment: It appears we'll have to wait until archive broadcast for 2/6/12 is posted for listening.. addition to comment: It appears we’ll have to wait until archive broadcast for 2/6/12 is posted for listening..

]]> Comment on wisdom in his pages… by Stan http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/06/wisdom-in-his-pages/#comment-218645 Stan Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:38:48 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19268#comment-218645 http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-dr-peter-breggin-hour/ Peter Breggin commenting upon David Healy today on his radio show "a biological psychiatrist that has stands behind some of the most barbaric practices in psychiatry today" shared this interesting & critical point of view when answering questions about the big picture of creating positive solutions & change. I would really like to see Micky, Peter, Bob Whitaker, and David have a public sit down or broadcast radio show of shared discussion/chat with us all. Just maybe the world renowned & influential Micky can do a little arm twisting and make it happen....:) Where is the common ground of formulating a platform of effective change to what we have today? http://www.progressiveradionetwork.com/the-dr-peter-breggin-hour/ Peter Breggin commenting upon David Healy today on his radio show “a biological psychiatrist that has stands behind some of the most barbaric practices in psychiatry today” shared this interesting & critical point of view when answering questions about the big picture of creating positive solutions & change.

I would really like to see Micky, Peter, Bob Whitaker, and David have a public sit down or broadcast radio show of shared discussion/chat with us all. Just maybe the world renowned & influential Micky can do a little arm twisting and make it happen….:)

Where is the common ground of formulating a platform of effective change to what we have today?

]]> Comment on wisdom in his pages… by stephany http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/06/wisdom-in-his-pages/#comment-218644 stephany Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:04:58 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19268#comment-218644 Dr David Healy is actively on Twitter looking for media contacts in the U.S. to help promote the book: https://twitter.com/#!/DrDavidHealy/status/166243220148326401 "Anyone have contacts in US media? Would love some help promoting Pharmageddon and RxISK.org. Many thanks. http://davidhealy.org/books/pharmageddon-is-the-story-of-a-tragedy Dr David Healy is actively on Twitter looking for media contacts in the U.S. to help promote the book:

https://twitter.com/#!/DrDavidHealy/status/166243220148326401

“Anyone have contacts in US media? Would love some help promoting Pharmageddon and RxISK.org. Many thanks. http://davidhealy.org/books/pharmageddon-is-the-story-of-a-tragedy

]]> Comment on wisdom in his pages… by Mickey http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/06/wisdom-in-his-pages/#comment-218643 Mickey Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:48:13 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19268#comment-218643 I pre-ordered it from Amazon and it said "due out in March," but within days [January 26th], it was delivered by my local UPS truck here in the hinterland. This is from my "order history": <blockquote>Order Placed: January 22, 2012 Amazon.com order number: 104-2496749-9278608 Order Total: $34.50 Shipment #1: Shipped on January 24, 2012 Delivery estimate:January 27, 2012 </blockquote> I was pretty impressed! I pre-ordered it from Amazon and it said “due out in March,” but within days [January 26th], it was delivered by my local UPS truck here in the hinterland. This is from my “order history”:

Order Placed: January 22, 2012
Amazon.com order number: 104-2496749-9278608
Order Total: $34.50
Shipment #1: Shipped on January 24, 2012
Delivery estimate:January 27, 2012

I was pretty impressed!

]]> Comment on wisdom in his pages… by Joel Hassman, MD http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/06/wisdom-in-his-pages/#comment-218642 Joel Hassman, MD Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:35:34 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19268#comment-218642 Is the book out yet, because I sought it on the net a couple weeks ago and was told it is available in March? What will be interesting and pathetic to learn at the same time is who will attack this expose just for the sake of 'protecting' medicine. It gets harder each week to hear patients tell me stories about care interventions by other providers that is hard to see the word 'care' be applicable to the intervention. I think it was Tom Gutheil who wrote back in 1998, the Journal of Psychiatric Practice for the Forensic column there, about reporting impaired colleagues, but the issue of impairment is not just about substance abuse or fraud, but also being clueless and refusing to accept standards of care that are appropriate and defendable. That is what bothers me in our profession at times too. Is the book out yet, because I sought it on the net a couple weeks ago and was told it is available in March?

What will be interesting and pathetic to learn at the same time is who will attack this expose just for the sake of ‘protecting’ medicine. It gets harder each week to hear patients tell me stories about care interventions by other providers that is hard to see the word ‘care’ be applicable to the intervention.

I think it was Tom Gutheil who wrote back in 1998, the Journal of Psychiatric Practice for the Forensic column there, about reporting impaired colleagues, but the issue of impairment is not just about substance abuse or fraud, but also being clueless and refusing to accept standards of care that are appropriate and defendable. That is what bothers me in our profession at times too.

]]> Comment on another point [résumé churning]… by Altostrata http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/04/another-point/#comment-218633 Altostrata Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:33:05 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19166#comment-218633 <strong>Maurizio Fava</strong>, Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute, and Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School: About the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute http://www.massgeneral.org/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1133 : "(over $35 million in research programs last year)....The MGH Psychiatry CTNI offers industry sponsors access to a broad range of state-of-the- art services, including the most advanced technology and methodology." Listed as an author of about 600 papers in 36 years, an average of 16 per year. First author on 132 of them, last author on around 200. Proponent of adjunctive medications and a member of the STAR*D paper mill (81 papers). 90 coauthored with John Rush, 98 with Nierenberg, 102 with Trivedi. Member (with Schatzberg) of the antidepressant discontinuation syndrome expert consensus panel, sponsored by Lilly in 1997 and in 2004-2006, Wyeth. All we know of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome comes from these experts. Around the office, known as "<strong>Moneybags</strong>." Maurizio Fava, Director, MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute, and Slater Family Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School:

About the MGH Clinical Trials Network and Institute http://www.massgeneral.org/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1133 : “(over $35 million in research programs last year)….The MGH Psychiatry CTNI offers industry sponsors access to a broad range of state-of-the- art services, including the most advanced technology and methodology.”

Listed as an author of about 600 papers in 36 years, an average of 16 per year. First author on 132 of them, last author on around 200. Proponent of adjunctive medications and a member of the STAR*D paper mill (81 papers). 90 coauthored with John Rush, 98 with Nierenberg, 102 with Trivedi.

Member (with Schatzberg) of the antidepressant discontinuation syndrome expert consensus panel, sponsored by Lilly in 1997 and in 2004-2006, Wyeth. All we know of antidepressant withdrawal syndrome comes from these experts.

Around the office, known as “Moneybags.”

]]> Comment on none reported… by stephany http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/04/none-reported/#comment-218631 stephany Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:53:27 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19208#comment-218631 The patients using neuroleptics for depression, anxiety, insomnia, behavior control could find out the hard way what these drugs *really* are, and are capable of doing to their bodies permanently, which will make insomnia etc a welcome relief in memory hindsight .... The patients using neuroleptics for depression, anxiety, insomnia, behavior control could find out the hard way what these drugs *really* are, and are capable of doing to their bodies permanently, which will make insomnia etc a welcome relief in memory hindsight ….

]]> Comment on none reported… by Altostrata http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/04/none-reported/#comment-218630 Altostrata Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:46:13 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19208#comment-218630 This is one of those public health studies. What does psychiatry have to do with public health? All brains are different. Ya win some, ya lose some. Statistics over a population mean nothing, there were some people who were helped by the medications! There were! That's why we have to keep medicating as many as possible. The ones who benefit justify all the cost and injury of the others. It's only logical. This is one of those public health studies. What does psychiatry have to do with public health? All brains are different. Ya win some, ya lose some. Statistics over a population mean nothing, there were some people who were helped by the medications! There were! That’s why we have to keep medicating as many as possible. The ones who benefit justify all the cost and injury of the others. It’s only logical.

]]> Comment on none reported… by Ivan http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/04/none-reported/#comment-218625 Ivan Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:52:29 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19208#comment-218625 As my sainted father used to say, you can’t help larfing… it makes you larf. When I see these data I think of those cute TV ads for Abilify in depression – you know, spreading the picnic blanket. Tardive dyskinesia anybody? As my sainted father used to say, you can’t help larfing… it makes you larf.

When I see these data I think of those cute TV ads for Abilify in depression – you know, spreading the picnic blanket. Tardive dyskinesia anybody?

]]> Comment on another point [résumé churning]… by Nancy Wilson http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2012/02/04/another-point/#comment-218620 Nancy Wilson Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:54:04 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=19166#comment-218620 File under “My resume is longer than your resume!": http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2005-12120-001 File under “My resume is longer than your resume!”:

http://psycnet.apa.org/psycinfo/2005-12120-001

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