These are the speaking notes for two talks given in Chicago on Monday February 18th and Tuesday February 19th. The S2, S3 in the text refers to slides which are available here: Slides 1 and Slides 2. The video is available here: Part 1 and Part 2. The first slides features RxISK.org where we have created a Violence Zone and want you to get anyone who may have been made violent … [Read more...] about Prescription-only Homicide and Violence
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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall
There is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay. Few doctors or patients understand it. This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. This post by Harriet Vogt and David Healy is an illustrated version of a peer-reviewed citable academic article Randomized … [Read more...] about It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall
Who’s Afraid of Science?
I was invited by Yulia Mikhailova to deliver a Guest Lecture to the New Mexico Technical Institute on Wednesday February 2. The talk began and appeared to be going smoothly, when halfway through the Zoom room was hacked with the hackers saying and writing a lot divisive and hateful things. A later post will say more. The talk has been re-recorded and hopefully a recorded Q and … [Read more...] about Who’s Afraid of Science?
The MedicoChemical and PetroChemical Twins
This Medico-Chemical or Petrochemical post is one in a sequence of Politics of Care posts that explores the interface between our ability or inability to Care for our environment and ability or inability to Care for our health and the health of the most vulnerable amongst us. One of the problems getting in the way of a recognition of the disaster now unfolding within Health … [Read more...] about The MedicoChemical and PetroChemical Twins
Resources
Data Based Medicine Sites RxISK.org is a medication safety website featuring a blog, adverse event reporting system, and free tools and resources to help you weigh the benefits of a drug against its side effects. TaperMD is a revolutionary solution to the problems of managing multiple medications in older adults. Developed with McMaster University, it was built to help … [Read more...] about Resources
Swallowed Whole or Murdered: Malcharist
Patrick Hahn has written the first Riff on Malcharist which is now posted on Samizdat reproduced below. What Paddy Chayefsky’s Network was to the Twentieth Century, Paul John Scott’s Malcharist is to the Twenty-First. This is a novel that takes the reader deep inside the Pharmaceutical Empire which invents diseases, creates “patient advocacy organizations” to sell these … [Read more...] about Swallowed Whole or Murdered: Malcharist
There is no Sanity Claus
Mid-morning, on Tuesday September 24 2019, Britain was gripped. Lots of people stopped what they were doing and turned their TVs or computers to live feed from the Supreme Court. Spider Woman (Brenda Hale) was taking on the Joker (Boris Johnson). She punched him in the nose. The Joker had suspended Parliament at a critical moment in the Brexit process. Spider Woman told … [Read more...] about There is no Sanity Claus
329: A Study in What?
Editorial Note: This post will be an easy and obvious read if you're Irish. If you're not, with Google or whatever it should be accessible and indeed the little bit of extra effort may make it a more rewarding read. There is a warning below in respect of one item you might choose to Google. There is also one made up word that won't appear in Google - until after this post is … [Read more...] about 329: A Study in What?
Khashoggi and Pandemrix
Editorial Note: The image that was here will be repeated and explained next week Who will Rid me of ... Events from Washington to London and elsewhere surrounding the gruesome death of Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of the Saudi hierarchy link well with the difficulties everyone of us has when things go wrong on a medicine or after a vaccine. The Saudi "who us?" fell apart … [Read more...] about Khashoggi and Pandemrix
What to do about Suicide
These words are from David Foster Wallace. I don't know if he was speaking about the depression he had or the akathisia that antidepressants can cause. Maybe he didn't know and this contributed to his suicide. This post needs to be read in conjunction with What to do about Sex on RxISK. This post is about structural aspects to the problems not just of sexual dysfunction … [Read more...] about What to do about Suicide