David Healy

Making medicines safer for all of us

Adverse drug events are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospitals.

It’s a reasonable bet they are an even greater cause of death in non-hospital settings where there is no one to monitor things going wrong and no one to intervene to save a life. In mental health, for instance, drug-induced problems are the leading cause of death — and these deaths happen in community rather than hospital settings.

There is also another drug crisis — we are failing to discover new drugs. [Read more...]

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Dos Centavos – Veinte Euros
March, 20, 2023 | 4 Comments

  Five years ago, in a riff on the theme of rape, Dos Centavos tackled drug induced harms and the inability of doctors to see, hear or believe the people they put on a poison who end up poisoned. Dos Centavos was not the only post on this unfolding disaster.  Many other posts, like A […]

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Here We Stand, We Can Do No Other
March, 14, 2023 | 3 Comments

In 1517, Martin Luther nailed a defiant proclamation to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral.  (See RxISK Reformation Day). The issuing of indulgences, offering easier entries to Heaven, in return for money is popularly represented as being at the heart of the storm that followed. A significant part of the storm came from Luther’s stubbornness – […]

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Are Women Better at Everything?
March, 9, 2023 | 5 Comments

I was born in a generation where it was thought women couldn’t drive cars, write fiction, compose music, compete at sports, or should be let work after marriage. Women were emotional, intuitive, erratic but not really capable of full rationality. Ireland in the 1950s may have been a few years behind other parts of Europe […]

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The History of a Medical Psychosis
February, 24, 2023 | 9 Comments

This is a third talk in a series that began with Relationship Based Medicine , continued with Beware of Doctors Bearing Gifts and concludes with this talk, which could called History of a Medical Psychosis, Medical Neoliberalism, Evident versus Evidence Based Medicine, A Lutheran Moment, or Does Objectivity Come from using Chance to Control Bias […]

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Military Medicine, Wealth and Health
February, 15, 2023 | 5 Comments

Here is a first stab at a series of ‘short’ video clips which apparently better for marketing ideas that full length lectures – see below.  They are drawn from Beware Doctors Bearing Gifts. Military Medicine – Drugs and Guns The Life Pfizer Want you to Live Wealth Makes Health Medical Neo-Liberalism What Do Women Most […]

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