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Thanks to my readers, The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane, the truth that had to told, is now #1 rated in several nonfiction categories, including the medical categories of research and medical ethics, as well as for
A review of Goose That Laid the Golden Egg by freelance writer Bob Etier, follow her on twitter @katelier, and read the full review here.
Did you know that Vitamin A, taken in excess, is believed to cause depression? Accutane, that remarkably popular drug once prescribed to teens and still available in generic [...]
The Beauregarde Affair is great narrative nonfiction about the author’s time in the 1970s living with his sex drug and rock and roll friends in a house on North Morningside Drive in Atlanta, GA. The author and his friends lived in a stately older home in the Morningside neighborhood of [...]
Book Review reposted from Sassy Peach Book Reviewer. Read more book reviews here and follow her blog here and twitter @niccilor here.
I was attracted to The Goose That Laid The Golden Egg by Doug Bremner because it is the story of the psychiatrist who took down Accutane. You know, that [...]
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As many people have been known to comment when facing their own or another’s misfortune, ‘So long as you have your health ….’.
So what happens when you haven’t or, even worse, your children haven’t? You want a magic cure, of course, and typically this is represented as a magic [...]
A great review of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg from fellow Amanda Knox blogger Steve Graham, a lawyer from Spokane, WA (where much of the book takes place). Read it here and follow him on twitter @grahamdefense.
An indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, “The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg” illuminates the greed and unscrupulous nature of pharmaceutical companies and their market driven interests.
Bremner’s text is a personal narrative and social polemic, both. Finely written, his personal quest to honor his late mother who had died when he was a [...]
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Or, Before You Take That Pill, the title of another of Dr. Bremner’s books, inform yourself about its effects, side effects and impact on overall health. Thanks to Dr. Bremner, Accutane, an acne medicine, is now off the market after causing depression. The drug also may have led to 300 suicides in Accutane-treated patients, which [...]
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