Mad in America

AUGUST 3, 2024

T he harm caused by the medical profession is called iatrogenesis , and in 1975, Ivan Illich (1926-2002) published Medical Nemesis (republished titled Limits to Medicine ) in which he discussed the clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis of modern medicine. Antidepressants? John’s wort-treated patients).

Genetics and mental health 142

Genetics and mental health Sleep and mental health Hospitality Technology 142

Mad in America

JANUARY 9, 2024

T here is a core concept shaping the ‘market’ in health, the concept of an assay, that few doctors or patients understand. This idea went nowhere, until a birth defect crisis triggered by thalidomide, a sleeping pill, struck. It doesn’t pay in this situation to be an educated patient. Even fewer spot the role assays play.

Sleep and mental health 140

Sleep and mental health Legal Healthcare Pharmaceuticals 140

Mad in America

OCTOBER 23, 2023

639 Psychiatrists are also “educated” with industry’s hospitality more often than any other specialty. 209,640 Lundbeck patented the active half of citalopram (Celexa or Cipramil) before the patent ran out and called the rejuvenated drug escitalopram (Cipralex or Lexapro), which it launched in 2002. It is the other way around.

Sleep and mental health 126

Sleep and mental health Education Personality disorders Hospitality 126

Mad in America

JULY 30, 2024

With a vision to transcend the cycle of incarceration into a restorative model of justice, rituals like smudging and cultural education are integrated alongside therapies like acupuncture, itself a technology that was invented by indigenous peoples of the Americas thousands of years ago. New Mexico acupuncture law opened right after in 2002.

Technology 100

Technology Education Healthcare Hospitality 100