Humor: Help Dr. Frist Find His Lost Kitty!

Link to spoof

Bill Frist medical experiments controversy

HCA scandal (Forbes)


Is your health insurance making you feel like a cat in a cage?

Humor: The Velveeta Rabbit

This makes us laugh, and we hope you will like it, too. Link
The original story is
here.

Pharmaceutical Freebies on eBay

Big Pharma's used handouts to physicians are sold on eBay.
Sic transit gloria Mundi.
Link
Now that guidelines for all doctors on accepting "gifts" are going to be in place, what other such ephemera will we see? Link

A Prescription Drug for the Annoyingly Cheerful

A Prescription Drug for the
Annoyingly Cheerful
Dr. Carolyn Dean MD ND | April 17, 2009


Today, I have a news (video) clip about a new drug that helps people who have a "persistently positive outlook on life."

The following ONN news clip reports that the FDA approved the first ever depressant drug. (Note: NOT an anti-depressant.) It’s a proposed treatment for the "approximately 20 million Americans who are insufferably cheery."

The depressant treats a wide range of symptoms including: "Participating in Community Theatre" and "Organizing Neighborhood Potlucks."

Click the play button below to watch the 2-minute video clip and then make sure to read my commentary afterward.

Please note: The video contains profanities (one written, one verbal)…

Link

The Ride

:)
With thanks to an intrepid UK friend.

AA: 5% Success Rate

Penn Jillette gives his fact-based opinion of AA.

Viagra, Bollywood, and Obama

More Adverse Side Effects: Obama is now owned by Pharma.

Humor: Mental Floss Adverse Events Quiz

Take the Mental Floss quiz and see if you can match drugs with their adverse side effects!
For added fun, you may give your physician the test.

Mr. Bean and Nutrition for the Brain

Video: Mr. Bean Meets The Queen

"Mr. Bean", a character created by British comedian Rowan Atkinson, lends a name to a memorable mental health site by Australian Walter Last. Visit MR. BEAN where you can enjoy Last's clear and thought-provoking writing about improving and healing your brain with nutrition.

Humor: 26 Week Old Fetus Diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder

Biting satire here

April - Happy Birthday to Spike Milligan!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Milligan
British comedian Spike Milligan was born on April 16th. Without his wonderfully non-neurotypical brain, the world would be a sadder - and much less funny - place.
We miss you, Spike.

Stephen Leacock - "The New Food"

Image by Norman Rockwell

The New Food
from Literary Lapses by Stephen Leacock

I see from the current columns of the daily press that
"Professor Plumb, of the University of Chicago, has just
invented a highly concentrated form of food. All the
essential nutritive elements are put together in the form
of pellets, each of which contains from one to two hundred
times as much nourishment as an ounce of an ordinary
article of diet. These pellets, diluted with water, will
form all that is necessary to support life. The professor
looks forward confidently to revolutionizing the present
food system."

Now this kind of thing may be all very well in its way,
but it is going to have its drawbacks as well. In the
bright future anticipated by Professor Plumb, we can
easily imagine such incidents as the following:

The smiling family were gathered round the hospitable
board. The table was plenteously laid with a soup-plate
in front of each beaming child, a bucket of hot water
before the radiant mother, and at the head of the board
the Christmas dinner of the happy home, warmly covered
by a thimble and resting on a poker chip. The expectant
whispers of the little ones were hushed as the father,
rising from his chair, lifted the thimble and disclosed
a small pill of concentrated nourishment on the chip
before him. Christmas turkey, cranberry sauce, plum
pudding, mince pie--it was all there, all jammed into
that little pill and only waiting to expand. Then the
father with deep reverence, and a devout eye alternating
between the pill and heaven, lifted his voice in a
benediction.

At this moment there was an agonized cry from the mother.

"Oh, Henry, quick! Baby has snatched the pill!" It was
too true. Dear little Gustavus Adolphus, the golden-haired
baby boy, had grabbed the whole Christmas dinner off the
poker chip and bolted it. Three hundred and fifty pounds
of concentrated nourishment passed down the oesophagus
of the unthinking child.

"Clap him on the back!" cried the distracted mother.
"Give him water!"

The idea was fatal. The water striking the pill caused
it to expand. There was a dull rumbling sound and then,
with an awful bang, Gustavus Adolphus exploded into
fragments!

And when they gathered the little corpse together, the
baby lips were parted in a lingering smile that could
only be worn by a child who had eaten thirteen Christmas
dinners.

(MORAL: Be careful what you put in your mouth.)

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