Excerpts from Before You Take That Pill and Blogs About Our Overmedicated Nation
by Doug Bremner MD
Blog postings
May 15, 2008. Dealing With Our Nation's Healthcare Crisis, One State At a Time
I was sitting in my daughter's orientation for a year overseas with the AFS Program
listening to this over-protective mother keep babbling on about how her daughter
hadn't been assigned to a program yet, didn't have a visa, blah blah blah.
When she started to fret about what would happen if she got in an accident
overseas and needed healthcare I just had to but in...
[more]
May 13, 2008. Prescription Medications, Ha Ha Ha!
I was a little worried that The Huffington Post wouldn't know what to do with my last blog
called Pine Straw Update ... but they featured it!
[more]
April 28, 2008. That Sucking Sound May Be the Pharmaceutical Pipeline Running Dry
I have a secret (?) interest in drug news and the pharmaceutical industry but it seems
like the only place I can get a fix for my jones outside of pharmalot.com or the pharma marketing
blog is the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) or the New York Times Business Section...
[more]
April 21, 2008. Captain Pill Comes Back to his Home Port
I wrote before about the image of myself as Captain Pill on the High Seas of Pharmaceuticals
but tonight I came back to the home port and checked in with the crew about the status of our
overseas adventures, namely first mate and skipper Dylan Bremner (age 10) and Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (age 16). [more]
April 16, 2008. Why Don't They Just Pay Us to Swallow Their Pills?
Today in JAMA an article came out about how drug companies pay "ghost writers" to write favorable
articles about their drugs and then pay doctors and researchers
with established reputations in their field to be listed as the
author of the paper
[more]
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