Evidence: US Healthcare, Third Leading Cause of Death_Institute of Medicine, JAMA, 2000
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"Among all the problematic suggestions for DSM5, the proposal for a "Psychosis Risk Syndrome" stands out as the most ill–conceived and potentially harmful." Allen Frances, MD
Dr. Robert Wachter, author of The Truth Behind America’s Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, provides an incisive blueprint for changing the culture in medicine. His starting point is the unexplained death of children following surgery at Stony Brook University Hospital, L.I.
A front page report in The New York Times describes a psychotropic drug-induced catastrophe that has befallen patients who obeyed their
psychiatrists, and swallowed the antipsychotic drugs prescribed by psychiatrists who insisted the drugs were for the patients own good.
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Public Citzen petitioned FDA Commissioner to immediately removal from market Pfizer’s Alzheimer’s drug, Aricept 23 mg dose, because of serious safety hazards and failure to demonstrate efficacy. The petition also urges FDA to add a label warning on Aricept and generic donepezil (5 mg and 10 mg) stating: "Use of 20 mg per day is counter indicated."