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THE PERVERSION OF CHOICE

Iona Heath, past president of the UK Royal College of General Practictitioners and an early supporter and advisor for our Selling Sickness conference, wrote a column in the 31 October 2009 BMJ titled: The Perversion […]

Dec, 25

MAKING THE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Leonore flew out to Minneapolis this past weekend so she and Kim could sit at a big table with all the bits and pieces of program and finally put it all together. We’ve been speaking […]

Dec, 12

TIME TO BAN DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER DRUG MARKETING

This title comes from a 2007 editorial by Kurt Stange in the Annals of Family Medicine but the heartfelt sentiment comes from many, many reformers working in the field of healthcare. Read Stange’s review of the biases […]

Dec, 05

COLLECTIVE WISDOM

Earlier this month I (K.W.) attended the Consumers Union’s Safe Patient Project summit at Consumer Reports headquarters in Yonkers, NY. Over 31 talented advocates from 17 states came to learn, network and share ideas about […]

Nov, 30

FEMINIST CRITICS OF SEXUOPHARMACEUTICALS ARE “FRIGID COLD FISH”

I got really excited today when Susan Davis, a Melbourne physician who has conducted umpteen clinical trials trying to find a testosterone treatment for women with sexual complaints that will work better than placebo (keep […]

Nov, 22

MEDICAL DEVICES UNDER SCRUTINY

Overtreatment, overmarketing, conflicts-of-interest and all the trappings of disease-mongering pertain not just to medical treatments, education, publishing, screening and drugs, but, increasingly, to medical devices, both the kind that are used IN the body and […]

Nov, 14

UNEXPECTED RECESS

It’s been a rough week in the Big Apple. I’ve lived in New York City most of my life, through hurricanes and blizzards, terrorist attacks and tourist invasions, not to mention regular teacher/sanitation/transportation/newspaper union strikes, […]

Nov, 07

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