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Before You Take That Pill
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News and commentary related to medications, drug safety, and general health related information from researcher and physician Doug Bremner, MD, author of Before You Take That Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad For Your Health.
Recent Posts
Civil War in America: Humanizers v. Monetizers
The situation at Grady Hospital in Atlanta of cutting off dialysis for poor patients without insurance (which will make them, um, die) is an echo of the national political farse of throwing out public option health insurance and throwing more good m...
The Beach Beneath the Pavement
For those of you who have been wondering where I was, I have been focusing on my book, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, a book based on my true-life experiences with a drug company and finding my mother, which you can read here. As part of that I ...
‘The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg’ Now Posted at Authonomy.com
I just posted my novel on authonomy.com where you can vote for it if you like it. It is being written as a twitternovel, sometimes in the cafes of Barcelona, Atlanta, and Oberlin, Ohio, although not always. Follow it @GooseNovel. It is ‘The Goose T...
Does America Have a Prescription Drug Problem?
Half of all Americans take prescription medications. Eighty one percent take some type of pill. 100,000 die every year from a prescription med that they either didn’t need or that was not properly prescribed. What is going on here? While itR...
INFRINGEMENT: FREEDOM OF SPEECH/MEDICAL DOCTORS by Neil Shulman MD
INFRINGEMENT: FREEDOM OF SPEECH: MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS The United States is a country where freedom of speech is supposed to be a basic right. Administrative power and personal wealth should not give any American the right to infringe on one’...
Play MISTY for Me? No Investigator Given Full Set of the Data
In the Migraine Intervention for Star-Flex Technology (MIST) trial the mist seems to be making it difficult for me to understand the study results. The original trial was supposed to examine the effects of closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO) on mig...

