Drug companies have a year to publish their data, or we’ll do it for them THE CONVERSATION by Tom Jefferson June 14, 2013 As a doctor it’s my job to prescribe lotions and potions. To do so, I read information about drug trials in books and medical journals to keep me up to speed on the […]
Tarnished Image? Psychiatrists Square Off Over A Nemeroff Lecture Pharmalot by Ed Silverman 6/12/2013 For the second time in little more than a year, Charles Nemeroff is the subject of protest by other psychiatrists. The latest instance involves an invitation by the Institute of Psychiatry, the leading center in the UK for psychiatric research, to […]
I had missed this along the way, and it fills in a few blanks: A Soiled Phoenix Rises Mad in America by Philip Thomas, M.D. May 30, 2013 It has been a good time to bury controversy. With all eyes on Washington and the fallout from the publication of DSM-5, over here in England the […]
Irony abounds. The first archived post on this blog [an old, old piece of news…] was about the NSA spying back in December 2005. The old news was about whistle blower Katherine Gun’s leaking a memo about the NSA spying on the UN delegates in the lead in to our invasion of Iraq: Revealed: US […]
It’s Abby, daughter of the Not-Really-That-Boring-Only-Sort-of-Old Man, here to see if I can get this plugin working again. Pay no attention to the daughter behind the curtain, etc, etc, etc…
In March, friend Nancy Wilson ran across an article syndicated in multiple small town papers hawking the antidepressant, Viibryd®, with commentary by Madhukar Trivedi – not labeled as an advertisement [the article…, Viibryd® – coming to a hamlet near you…]. Trivedi is at UT Southwestern where he heads their Depression Clinic. She wrote the chairman […]
In Nashville with a sick friend. Back Sunday.
I had a patient long ago who was struggling to find a way to describe her Mom and why she was so conflicted about her – being both devoted to and oppressed by their relationship. She said, "She’s just crazy-making!" That phrase stuck with me and was probably the nidus for a later old saying […]
The agenda of the launch of the DSM-5 has been redirected by Dr. Insel’s Transforming Diagnosis. One example among many: The New Criteria for Mental Disorders New Yorker by Maria Konnikova May 8, 2013 … The director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, announced last week that the institute would be officially […]