More Questionable Research

June 9, 2011

The National Institute of Health (NIH) is an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  It is the primary U.S. Government agency responsible for medical research. The NIH has 27 sub-departments, one of which is the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).  The NIMH has an annual budget of $1.5 billion, which [...]

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An Interesting Post On Depression

April 12, 2011

There’s some interesting reading at Mercola.com posted April 6, 2011. Dr. Mercola states that depression is not an illness! – and that this bogus illness was created by psychiatrists and drug companies in order to sell drugs! No surprises there for regular readers of this site.  Unfortunately Dr. Mercola doesn’t take the logic far enough.  [...]

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Grand Rounds at Better Health

March 22, 2011

Dr. Val Jones has this week’s Grand Rounds up at Better Health.   You can find reading material here for the entire week, as Dr. Jones has included more than forty posts.  Some are inspirational, like Dr. Ed Pullen’s Carpe Diem; others cover material that is hard to believe, as in Roy’s post Doctors to [...]

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Psychiatrists Are Drug-pushers

March 16, 2011

There’s an interesting article on the New York Times website: Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to Drug Therapy (March 5, 2011). The essence of the article is that psychiatrists no longer engage in talk therapy to any great extent, but instead prescribe behavior-altering drugs. What’s interesting about this is that the author, Gardiner [...]

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Grand Rounds at Diabetes Mine

March 15, 2011

Grand Rounds is up at Diabetes Mine.  You will find the usual wide range of topics, so stop by and have a read.

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Grand Rounds at Dr. Pullen

March 8, 2011

Grand Rounds is up at DrPullen.  There is the usual wide range of subjects – some light-hearted, others very serious.  Stop by and take a look.

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Diagnosis

March 6, 2011

I am writing this post as a response to a comment posted by medical blog in my previous post, More on So-called Bipolar Disorder. In the summer of 2001 I became very ill.  The symptoms were exhaustion and mild nosebleeds. I went to three different practitioners, but they all were dismissive of my concerns, assured [...]

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More on So-called Bipolar Disorder

February 24, 2011

A few days ago, I received the following email: Hi Phil, I would like to hear from you how we can survive the bipolar disorder, as I understand bipolar is a very serious disease. Regards, [Name] The question seems important enough to warrant a more public response, though I have omitted the writer’s name to [...]

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Grand Rounds at The Covert Rationing Blog

February 22, 2011

DrRich has Grand Rounds up at The Covert Rationing Blog.  He has obviously put a lot of work into hosting this week’s rounds, with explanatory paragraphs concerning each entry.  The reader is easily able to discern what is covered in each submitted post, so stop by to have a look, and read further.

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More On Disability

February 16, 2011

In his book Anatomy of an Epidemic, Robert Whitaker drew attention to the increasing numbers on the Social Security disability rolls due to so-called mental illness.  Robert raises the possibility that the drugs routinely used to “treat” depression may be contributing to the problem.  In a recent post, he discusses this matter further. I think [...]

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