'A physician’s oath never says to keep your mouth shut.' David Egilman lived that.
“As a doctor, I can treat one cancer patient at a time. But [by showing #Pharma knew the risks of drugs it markets anyway] 'I have the potential to save millions.'
nytimes.com/2024/04/15/hea…

There's also nothing to be gained from wrestling with the obvious shills, trolls, grifters, hopeless cases (unless addressing misinformation, or raising relevant issues, of course) + they enjoy it.

There's a big difference between them + all the decent doctors not yet 'aware'.

“Really? If I have a family whose child was taking a drug from which they may have sustained unknown damage, I’m not supposed to speak up?... Is that the other side to the story? Possibly the ethics community in Toronto needs a lesson in informed consent.' Dr. Nancy Olivieri

Dr. Nancy Olivieri 60 Minutes Lesley Stahl Amar Jesani Sandhya Srinivasan Congratulations Dr Olivieri!

What a world that we live in when we have a need to recognize conduct that we should expect ?

“But the sad fact is that many in academia do not seem to appreciate the significance of a struggle until it is honoured with public recognition …”

Chris Aiken, MD It’s a “me too” of Abilify, which also doesn’t work for anything, but the money keeps rolling in.

'Drugs passed through expedited approval processes — 36% in the UK in 2020 — are more likely to be withdrawn for safety reasons, carry a subsequent black box warning, or have dosage forms voluntarily discontinued by the manufacturer.”

medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/uk…

GSK paid $3 billion in criminal + civil fines + plead guilty to misdemeanour criminal charges related Paxil, Wellbutrin, + Avandia.

Their own scientists warned about a potential cancer-causing impurity in Zantac now 40 years ago, but the FDA considered the risk + approved it.

'Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”

Joshua Ireland Dr John Read Ash Paul Samei Huda Sulman Aziz Mirza, MD? | TheKicksShrink British Psychological Society Division of Clinical Psychology Adam Grant Ash Paul: We can all share pictures of triangles. For example, psychiatry on X routinely shows itself to be bottom feeders in the red section below. And the public and media are noticing this.

Also, I didn't tag the creator of this chart for backup.

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Back in 2002, Nobel Laureate Sidney Brenner on academic publishing:

'I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system.'

Pity this little testing trick was spotted not by scientific reviewers, but by a tech assistant:

Safety is not just an afterthought.

Safety issues are actively suppressed if they will get in the way of sales/profits.

I literally sat in a meeting with an FDA official mocking patients and their families by laughing about how much fun it would be to see the faces of the

Adam Cifu The best line, “While I am sure most doctors and patient advocates are good people; good people can do bad things in a broken system.”

A must read.
Unproven healthcare will bankrupt America sensible-med.com/p/unproven-hea…

'Reducing Medication Burdens is perhaps the most important task in medicine today... — which requires a switch from an EBM to a Relationship Based Medicine to stand any chance of working'.

Where Does Responsibility Lie?

An important @Rxisk post for MDs + patients: