Future of Mental Health Series: Oryx Cohen on his film âHealing Voicesâ
The Future of Mental Health interview series continued this past week with some very interesting interviews, among them Sara Tai on inner city mental health, Russell Razzaque on psychiatry and mindfulness, and Jane Linsley on Gould Farm. Here is my interview with Oryx Cohen on his new film âHealing Voicesâ which will be premiering soon.
Witty A: Report to the President
Faced with questions about the $3 Billion fine imposed on GSK â is it just the cost of doing business? - Andrew Witty snapped back: âAlthough corporate malfeasance cases end up looking very big, they often have their origin in just⌠one or two people who didnât quite do the right thing. Itâs not about the big piece. The 100,000 people who work for GSK are just like you, right? Iâm sure everybody who reads the BMJ has friends who work for drug companies. Theyâre normal people⌠Many of them are doctors."
Response to “The Marketing of Serotonin” on BMJ
The BMJ article on The Marketing of Serotonin has stirred some interest. There are some  highly technical comments on the BMJ site but of course the key point behind the piece is the rather obvious fact that twenty-five years ago many people were saying it was all a myth. The extraordinary Michael Leunig nailed it twenty years ago in the sketch above. (Leunig is wonderful across the board and razor sharp on medicine and mental health).
