Mad in America
AUGUST 3, 2024
Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.
Mad in America
DECEMBER 30, 2023
The tragedy of Heather Armstrong’s death is that no one really knows why she took her own life, but I believe I do, and the drug manufacturers agree with me. I felt like I had taken a magical pill to cure whatever might have been wrong with me… until I crashed, became paranoid and landed in the hospital.”
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Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 7, 2024
Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital. In his book Pharmageddon , David Healy writes: “Drug-induced injuries are now the fourth leading cause of death in hospital settings. In the narrow language of hospital codes, his best translation is “health anxiety”.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 28, 2023
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights, a group associated with Scientology, then issued a press release urging Congress to ban this “killer drug,” and that’s when Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Prozac, conjured up a media strategy to save its drug that has proven effective ever since.
Real Psychiatry
DECEMBER 5, 2024
If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck. I worked at the same hospital for 22 years and during that time we went from providing care to anyone who walked in the door to care based on businesses telling us what to do.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 14, 2024
Every time I was in the hospital, they always had a little flier that said, ‘Know your Rights.’ For Barnes, the Shield volunteer, Russell’s experience reminds her of stories she’d been told about her maternal grandfather who was committed to a state hospital. But that number is so swamped. There are so many people needing help.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 10, 2023
When the incident occurred, my panic-stricken mother told my father to take me to the hospital right away. Dr. Fulmer quickly pumped the drugs out of my stomach and told my father I would not have lived if he had tried to get me to the hospital. That was the statement made by Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, the manufacturer of Adderall.
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