Podcasts, YouTube Channels, Blogs and Related
January 23, 2023 | One Comment

In some of the comments after the last post, POGO mentioned that Josef Witt-Doerring has done two interviews with me so far and posted them on his site. The Risks of Antidepressants  and Antidepressants and Mass Shootings/Murder Suicide: An interview has also appeared on Demystifying Science podcast with  Anastasia & Michael Shilo The Podcast called […]

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Harry and Meghan and Narinder
January 9, 2023 | 19 Comments

Some weeks ago, in Antidepressants and Premature Death RxISK featured an article by Narinder Balsal and colleagues from Bristol in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which caused quite a fuss.  See below. Today we are posting about another article by her in PLoS Medicine.  This comes with an Animated Trailer – the first RxISK post to […]

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Charles Dickens and Red Tape, Alive and Well in 2023
January 1, 2023 | 15 Comments

This post is a follow up to Great Treatment, Patient Dead  and to last weeks ‘Twas the Nice before Christmas.   This image is almost unreadable but worth presenting as it’s the first mention of Red Tape – short for Red Tapeworm.  The full, readable text can be found here The Circumlocution Office. Red Tape is […]

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Twas the NICE before Christmas.
December 22, 2022 | 15 Comments

To the Sounds of a Drum © Nina Otulakowski November 2022 This letter, which has had no response, needs to be read in conjunction with Can you Hear the Suzerain Call? Letter to Dr S Roberts, CEO, Ms Nebhrajani, Chair, NICE November 30 2022 Dear Drs Roberts and Ms. Nebhrajani I wrote to your predecessors […]

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Our Unequal Struggle with Health Systems
November 23, 2022 | 21 Comments

This is Lacoon, a Trojan priest, and his sons being engulfed and killed by snakes from the deep as he tried to warn the Trojans about the Horse they were planning to pull inside their walls. Gordon Hughes case, outlined last week in Treatment Great, Patient Died, shares a lot in common with Evelyn, Kafka, […]

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The Treatment was Great, The Patient Died
November 16, 2022 | 14 Comments

This post contains a letter sent on October 31, 2022 to the Minister for Mental Health in Scotland about Gordon Hughes pictured here with his mother a few weeks before the events outlined below.  Pictures and headings have been added. Kevin Stewart MSP, Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, MinisterMWSC@gov.scot Dear Mr. Stewart, I […]

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Remind Your Sister to get Vaccinated
October 24, 2022 | 13 Comments

The European Pharmaceutical Industry, in the guise of EFPIA, has a stranglehold on the European Commission in terms of policies for vaccination promotion and acquisition of healthcare data. Healthcare data is essential for Pharma to collect commercially useful realworld evidence of clinical illnesses and prescribing habits and trends. Both campaigns are supported directly or indirectly […]

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Marilyn Lemak: Trial or Clemency?
September 14, 2022 | 8 Comments

A few weeks ago, an original set of four posts about Marilyn Lemak – Trial and Punishment, Then and Now, Clemency, When the Music Stops elicited mostly supportive comments from those who comment regularly on RxISK. The three posts last week, Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak, People Respond and Janet Lagerloef responds,  drew a very […]

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Janet Lagerloef Responds to Eric Zorn
September 9, 2022 | One Comment

The following was written by Janet Lagerloef, a writer from Sugar Grove who is finishing up a book about her 10-year friendship with Marilyn Lemak, who is serving a sentence of life without parole for killing her three children in their Naperville home in March,1999. In last week’s issue, I covered the details of that crime […]

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People Respond to Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
September 7, 2022 | 8 Comments

Does Marilyn Lemak deserve mercy? Readers weigh in These messages are in reference to items in last week’s issues of the Picayune Sentinel. On my interview with Marilyn Lemak Julie S.  Marilyn Lemak may have been a model citizen before and after her appalling crime. But the idea of “clemency” for her makes me queasy. I […]

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Eric Zorn and Marilyn Lemak
September 6, 2022 | No Comments

Rxisk has featured four posts on Marilyn Lemak, Trial and Punishment, Then and Now, Clemency Hearing and When the Music Stops. Eric Zorn is a former opinion columnist for the Chicago Tribune. His bio and contact information is here.  He now writes the Picayune Sentinel, where Marilyn Lemak speaks out about her bid for clemency first […]

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Marilyn Lemak’s Trial and Punishment
July 5, 2022 | 23 Comments

In 1999 Marilyn Lemak killed her three children and tried to kill herself.  She has spent over 22 years in jail since.  People in Chicago and beyond can still remember when the news broke.  Janet Lagerloef did more.  She said there but for the grace of God go I and made it her mission to […]

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Caught in the Firing Line: Nurse Prescribers
May 30, 2022 | 6 Comments

Back in early Covid times, I was asked by Cecile aan de Stegge to talk at a meeting: Suicide and its Prevention. Contemporary and Historical Perspectives in Nursing, 1880–2020 This finally happened in May 2022.  Cecile asked me to talk on the issues around suicide and antidepressants, which seemed particularly pertinent as an increasing number […]

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The Best Books on Medical Treatments Gone Wrong
May 23, 2022 | 12 Comments

A month ago I had an email from Ben Fox of forauthors@shepherd.com – a new venture looking to promote books in a new way. See Shepherd.com. The idea is to feature a book by an author and then get her or him to list five books that have particularly influenced them – centered on a […]

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The Caste System in Medicine
May 2, 2022 | 9 Comments

This post is by Spruce who has been a regular contributor to these columns.  It follows from his comments on The Invisible Doctor and it adds to that post which has had a lot of comments since.  Humans seem to have a tendency to caste systems but most people would be surprised to think you […]

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Black Robe, White Coat
April 11, 2022 | 3 Comments

Black Robe, White Coat spirals out from Sanctuary Trauma, The Invisible Doctor and Strangers in the Room.  Black Robe, a book by Brian Moore, was published in 1985. It centred on a Jesuit (Black Robe) Mission to convert the People of what is now called Quebec in the 1630s. Movie here. An early scene from […]

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Strangers in the Room: Vaccine Mandates
April 3, 2022 | 9 Comments

When Kate and William went to their doctor to ask about a medical exemption for him following the brain haemorrhage he had had two days after his second vaccination (See Thinking Fast and Slow), Kate was bewildered at a disconnect between her and the doctor in the room with them, a doctor she normally thought […]

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The Invisible Doctor
March 28, 2022 | 23 Comments

From her first email M seemed completely believable. Everything since has added to her believability. So why is she not believed? This post offers another example of repeated Sanctuary Trauma, outlined in last week’s post, in earlier Kidnapped Daughter posts and in all posts tagged Medical Kidnap. In The Beginning Thirteen years ago, this spring […]

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Sanctuary Trauma and Lariam Toxicity
March 21, 2022 | 7 Comments

Illustration: Lost on the Sea of Medicine, © 2014 created by Billiam James This is the first of 4 posts   on the idea of Sanctuary Trauma.  Some weeks ago, Trixie Foster got in touch.  Trixie is an extraordinary campaigner on behalf of those injured by Lariam (mefloquine) – see the Strange History and Lariam Hell. […]

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Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
November 8, 2021 | 58 Comments

Last week in Washington a meeting was convened to look at Vaccine Harms – the harms suffered post-vaccine by some pro-vaccine people, some so much pro that they enrolled for vaccine clinical trials. See Mandated Harms. The meeting heard testimony from ten people, eight of whom I had interviewed, all of whom in my opinion […]

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Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
November 2, 2021 | 45 Comments

Tens of thousands of  people have been killed or badly injured by Covid vaccines.  I have had the privilege to meet and assess over ten of the injured in the last two weeks, thanks to Bri Dressen. On November 2, the Day of the Dead, in the Capitol, Bri, along with Senator Ron Johnson, and […]

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The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
October 25, 2021 | 17 Comments

This post links intimately with The Standardization of Psychiatry – you might even call it A Necessary Shadow.  Standardization was a lecture on psychiatry given in the Royal Society of Medicine on October 5.  To find out what’s going on you need to read the Back Story to Standardization.  Back in 2013, I was asked […]

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Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
October 18, 2021 | 48 Comments

In 2015, there was a series of posts on davidhealy.org Pharmaceutical Rape, Pharmaceutical Rape is not a Metaphor, Pharmaceutical Rape: Cast of Characters, Pharmaceutical Rape: The Good Patient, Pharmaceutical Rape: Doctors Still Know Best, Pharmaceutical Rape: Discrimination, Pharmaceutical Rape: Ending our Tolerance. The following year GlaxoSmithKline lawyers deposed me in the Dolin case, spending hours […]

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Mandates for Vaccines
September 26, 2021 | 42 Comments

Vaccine mandates feature prominently in the news at the moment. These are contentious for some health personnel, nurses and doctors among others, who are refusing to be vaccinated and willing to lose jobs if need be. France and the United States, countries not typically associated with an authoritarian approach, have made Covid vaccines compulsory. Some […]

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From The Little Mermaid to Buffy the Vampire Slayer
August 22, 2021 | 11 Comments

This post was triggered by the reactions of women to recent posts here and here.  It has a partner in Escape from a Prescription Drug Maze.  It fits with a relaunch of the RxISK Facebook Page, where the theme of how do we stop ourselves being silenced is one that will be developed. Tracey whose […]

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What Happened to Britney Spears can Happen to You
August 2, 2021 | 6 Comments

Britney Spears has eloquently put an issue on the plate for all of us – listen Here – an issue that can affect all of us. Jim Gottstein has devoted a lifetime to grappling with this issue and recently wrote The Zyprexa Papers a book that features Bill Bigley, who was in a very similar […]

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Ghosts in the Clinical Trial Machine
June 21, 2021 | 18 Comments

This is the first part of a two part series on clinical trial fraud from Johanna Ryan, with part 2 next week.  Jo is RxISK’s clinical trial and shoddy clinical practice sleuth – see The Maintenance Man.   Recently the U.S. Department of Justice called attention to a small but worrisome crime wave.  Health care fraud […]

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Medical Assistance in Dying: A Personal Perspective
April 9, 2021 | 18 Comments

  I have personal experience of seeking help with Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD). I also have personal experience of considering taking my own life by suicide. These instances have been as a result of feeling physically and mentally distraught, and with a fear that there may be no realistic potential for improvement in my […]

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Antidepressants: Education and Disability Certificates
March 22, 2021 | 38 Comments

This post covers difficulties primarily on antidepressants that medicines can cause to people in schools or universities who end up unable to study or do course-work, as well as the difficulties people can have trying to get off medicines, a process that can be pretty disabling. The materials linked to this post are being put […]

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M. A. D. and Treatment Resistant Depression
March 15, 2021 | 17 Comments

MAiD is Medical Assistance in Dying.  That little ‘in’ is doing a lot of work. The recent MAiD in Canada: Treatment Resistant Depression post attracted the following comment from Gus – book28@telus.net – that was just too good to leave as a comment. Let’s DisGus Are you people for real? Is this MD for real, […]

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