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I have been writing a series of posts this week at the Speak Without Interruption blog. You can view them all here.
The thought of suicide comes knocking at my bolted chamber door.
Knocking as though a friend who wishes to simply visit, to come brightly in,
And, perhaps, share a brand of new coffee just purchased at the store.
But the coffee offered, proffered is far too strong and deadly bold
And would [...]
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 [...]
By Doug Bremner
On October 4, 2008, the author and his siblings held a ceremony where they placed a tombstone they had purchased over the burial site of their mother, who died in 1966.
A few weeks after the ceremony, I got an email from the husband of one of my [...]
The Goose that laid the Golden Egg is at times, gripping and emotionally driven.
The author, Dr.Doug Bremner takes the reader along on his deeply emotional and poignant journey in a driven quest to find the answers he longed for since age 4 of the untimely death of his beloved Mother.
Along that journey, Dr.Bremner [...]
Review from Leonie Fennell’s blog: I have just finished reading “The goose that laid the Golden Egg” by Doug Bremner. It’s a factual account of a Roaccutane study done by Dr. Bremner, who discovered that this drug could and did cause suicide in some users. Following his discovery, Hoffman-La Roche then launched a vicious [...]
What people are saying about The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg: Accutane – the truth that had to be told.
“Riveting, compelling, fascinating.”
“Frighteningly well written.”
“This is an amazing book, especially since it is non-fiction.”
“I could not put this book down until I got to [...]
A psychiatrist who discovers that an acne medicine, worth billions to a drug company, is driving teens to suicide must probe a tragedy in his own early life in order to fight back… continue at free-press-release.com.
Here’s the latest from the Italian press on today’s Amanda Knox hearing. Via TG.com and and La Nazione.
Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito were in court today in Perugia as part of their trial on the second level for murder of Meredith Kercher.
The independent experts (Conti e Vecchiotti) told [...]
Repost from May 9, 2009.
Readers of the Drug Safety and Health News blog know that my Mom died suddenly of meningitis (see here for the story) when I was four and half (actually I was four years, eight months and eight days old; currently I am “47 1/2″ in [...]
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