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 topic of their choosing and linked into their work. Newspapers have been doing this for decades … [Read more...] about The Best Books on Medical Treatments Gone Wrong
Medical kidnap
The Caste System in Medicine
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 could find them in modern medicine. I had been thinking about getting a copy of my … [Read more...] about The Caste System in Medicine
Black Robe, White Coat
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 the movie shows a group of Algonquin watching a clock strike the … [Read more...] about Black Robe, White Coat
Strangers in the Room: Vaccine Mandates
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 well of. Unlike their usual consultations, it seemed to her there … [Read more...] about Strangers in the Room: Vaccine Mandates
The Invisible Doctor
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 I went through some dramatic … [Read more...] about The Invisible Doctor
Sanctuary Trauma and Lariam Toxicity
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. She also takes up the cause of those injured by other … [Read more...] about Sanctuary Trauma and Lariam Toxicity
Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
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 had the injuries they claimed and for each a strong … [Read more...] about Albert’s Algorithm: Be Very Afraid
Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
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 Peter Doshi and Linda Wastila who co-ordinated a petition to FDA to ask for the … [Read more...] about Mandated Harms: The Day of the Dead
The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
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 to review Necessary Shadow and Strictly Bipolar by Literary … [Read more...] about The Nature and Meaning of Psychiatry
Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy
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 … [Read more...] about Prescribed Harms and Vaccine Hesitancy