From the monthly archives: May 2009

Medical Gang of Four Cling to Table in Healthcare Reform Talks

By On May 13, 2009 · 2 Comments

The Medical Gang of Four have been clinging to the table at the healthcare reform talks and trying not to look like party poopers while they deviously plan their next move.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 3

By On May 12, 2009 · 4 Comments

In the first and second parts of this multi-part posting, I described the effects of my mother’s death when I was four and a half years old on my life. This continues on how in my adult life I sought out her history.

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Chowder-Headed Nature Editorial Lashes Out At Conflict of Interest ‘Crusaders’

By On May 11, 2009 · 6 Comments

A chowder-headed editorial in this week’s issue of the science journal Nature (anonymous, I might add… bawk, bawk!) entitled “A Really Serious Conflict of Interest” takes on the “issue” of conflict of interest (COI) in science related to payments from pharmaceutical companies and device makers to academic physicians and universities, and claims that certain “crusaders” are pissing on the party unfairly.

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 2

By On May 11, 2009 · 9 Comments

In the last post (“Brief History of My Mom, Part 1″) I wrote about my Mom’s sudden death when I was four and half years old. That was a terrible blow for me. She was a radiant person who was described as “turning on like a light bulb” when her friends walked into the room.

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Medical Gang of Four Promises to Give Up Red Meat, LOL.

By On May 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Leaders of the American Medical Industrial complex wrote a letter to the Obama administration recently promising to bring down the costs of healthcare. I don’t know about you but to me this is like asking a wolf to eat less red meat! Let’s see, who were on the list of worthies?

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A Brief History of My Mom, Part 1

By On May 10, 2009 · 20 Comments

Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in little kid language but I just say “47″). Anyhoo it pops out in my blogs here and there and to be honest I felt like I was putting myself out there or taking a risk somehow by talking about it. After she died my father soon remarried and it was not a topic of frequent conversation, shall we say.

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Morons and Others with Vested Interest Lead Charge to Keep Logic Out of Medical Decision Making

By On May 7, 2009 · 1 Comment

Now the morons are back with a vengence, this time to fight against President Barack Obama’s plan to spend one billion dollars on research to evaluate the effectiveness of different medical treatments. God forbid that coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery should be found to have no effect on long-term survival for 97% of patients with heart disease, or that prostate and breast cancer have no effect on mortality.

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Swine Flu Deaths Soar Past Bear Attacks

By On May 6, 2009 · 3 Comments

The second swine flu death in the US was confirmed today, in Texas, and the true numbers of deaths are unclear, with the original reports of 150 deaths in Mexico being ratcheted down as now only about 20 deaths or so are actually confirmed as swine flu. The 36,000 deaths per year trotted out every year by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) here in my hometown of Atlanta, GA, are of course a lie,

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Cardiac Surgery of Little Use for Most People with Heart Disease

By On May 5, 2009 · 1 Comment

Several clinical studies that are over a decade old showed that coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery when compared to medication therapy does more harm than good for most patients.

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Authors of Bogus Letter Asking for Removal of Dissociative Disorders from DSM Dance Together Around a Maypole

By On May 1, 2009 · 9 Comments

Recently a bogus letter was written to the head of the DSM V Committee, David Kupfer MD, by several psychiatrists, arguing that Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) should be removed from the DSM. Here is the letter:

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