About 2 months ago I took part in an interview with Matt Holford of 'It's Quite An Experience'.
Here is the result of that interview.
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Robert Fiddaman(1), Gary L. Hart(2), Michelle Hart(3), Matthew Holford(4)
Foreword
As doctors, we sell our services under the banner of science. Many patients have begun to question the quality, transparency and honesty of our science. Unfortunately, they are doing so with good reason.
When our patients lose trust in the integrity of the science we may never be able to recover our status as a profession. We ignore questioning patients at our peril.
Bob Fiddaman is a question-asker. He is persistent and he is angry. He is also right.
We need to start listening.
Aubrey Blumsohn
MBBCh, PhD, MSc, BSc(hons), FRCPath
Read the new book, The Evidence, However, Is Clear...The Seroxat Scandal
By Bob Fiddaman
ISBN: 978-1-84991-120-7
CHIPMUNKA PUBLISHING
AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD HERE
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I believe there should be strict legal curbs on prescribing. Doctors do far more harm than good by their excessive pill-pushing.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to point out that in Feb 2008 research was published about the ineffectiveness in general of antidepressants. The article in the Telegraph is headed 'Anti-depressants 'no better than dummy pills' and the link is http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579876/Anti-depressants-%27no-better-than-dummy-pills%27.html
The research was carried out by a Hull University team led by Prof Irving Kirsch.
It's not very often doctors seek to reduce pill-taking! - I fervently hope this will save a lot of people having their lives/health damaged by these harmful, useless drugs.
I believe that the antidepressant that harms more people than any other is amitriptyline, because it has been prescribed so much to so many millions of people.
Incidentally, MIND, the mental health charity, recommends a walk in the country as a more effective therapy for depression than antidepressants.
Some excellent research on depression - among the most thorough I have seen - is on the internet here http://www.socialaudit.org.uk/#The%20Antidepressant%20Web