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Interview of Me By Neil Shulman MD About Problems With The Pharmaceutical Industry

By On July 14, 2010 · 1 Comment

Interview of me by Neil Shulman MD about my experiences with the pharmaceutical industry. Exclusive footage you won’t see on the mainstream media.

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Welcome To The Snake Pit of the 21st Century

By On July 2, 2010 · 5 Comments

That’s right, The Snake Pit. It’s not the freaky mental hospital in the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” It is the modern American jail, which now holds more mentally ill people than psychiatric hospitals.

I listened to a lecture by Judge Steve Leifman of the Miami-Dade County Court system, who realized [...]

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‘Healthcare is a Right’: More on Medical Volunteerism and the Grady Coalition

By On April 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment

This weekend we had the Emory International Medical Volunteerism Conference here in Atlanta, GA. George Lundberg MD was the keynote speaker and there were sessions on volunteering in third world countries, advocacy for patient rights and a range of other topics.

Lindsay Jones, the attorney who took on the case of the Grady [...]

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Obama Not Getting the Same Healthcare As His Mama

By On March 9, 2010 · 3 Comments

There was an interesting editorial written by Rita Redberg MD yesterday in the Archives of Internal Medicine about President Barack Obama’ latest physical. Sure, we all think that the Commander-in-Chief should pull out the stops to make sure he is healthy, but should we doctors condone his use of expensive technologies that have not [...]

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Guest Post on Dear Thyroid Blog: Are We Suffering From Medication Madness?

By On March 2, 2010 · 1 Comment

I justed posted a guest blog on the Dear Thyroid website, which is a advocacy group for patients with thyroid disease here.

Some patients have scars from their thyroidectomies, I clutch my neck [...]

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Dollars for Docs

By On February 11, 2010 · 8 Comments

A local FOX Atlanta show, you can see me and read about it here.

Reported By: Beth Galvin | Edited By: Leigha Baugham

Nearly 20 percent of American doctors get paid by drug companies to be consultants or speakers, and in some cases, they’re making quite a lot of money. So does that influence [...]

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Civil War in America: Humanizers v. Monetizers

By On December 21, 2009 · 5 Comments

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 money after bad (Karen Ignagni and her group of health insurance criminals). I [...]

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INFRINGEMENT: FREEDOM OF SPEECH/MEDICAL DOCTORS by Neil Shulman MD

By On September 30, 2009 · 2 Comments

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’s freedom of speech. MANY DOCTORS FEEL THAT a downturn in the economy can create an UPSWING [...]

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‘These Are Real People’

By On September 28, 2009 · 3 Comments

Indeed. Words spoken today by Lindsay Jones, attorney representing the dialysis patients who have been given a death sentence by the decision to close Grady Dialysis Clinic in Atlanta, GA (see “Do I Have the Right To Live?” and the original post on this story “Grady Hospital Tells Dialysis Patients to [...]

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Do I Have the Right to Live?

By On September 23, 2009 · 14 Comments

Today in Fulton County court the courtroom was packed with dialysis patients and advocates who were scheduled to have their dialysis turned off last week but for whom a temporary restraining order had kept the Grady clinic in Atlanta GA open until today, I guess. Lawyers for Grady Hospital argued that the patients don’t have [...]

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