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From: fournietr@aol.com
To: thaddeus.mccotter@houseenews.net; phil.smith@vva.va.gov;
rweber@clickondetroit.com
Sent: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 11:45 pm
Subject: Fwd: A Cluster of Veterans' Deaths....
Please Act Quickly by contacting your Fellow Legislators' and ask their
cooperation in launching a Full Congressional Investigation.
Because psychiatric diagnoses are not actual diseases, they must be psychological
or psychiatric, not medical. This means they could not cause physical
complications including death.
On the other hand, all drugs, even penicillin, are exogenous chemicals, and are
poisons. The pivotal question in medicine is: Are they more helpful than harmful?
Of the drugs the four veterans were on, the antipsychotic, Seroquel, is the most
toxic. All antipsychotics carry this ominous black box warning: "Elderly patients
with dementia-related psychosis are at an increased risk of death."
"Warnings/Precautions" include: "neuroleptic-malignant syndrome" (usually fatal),
"tardive dyskinesia" (permanent, grotesque, movements of the face, tongue, head,
neck and body), "cerebrovascular events" "cardiovascular events," "diabetes,"
"obesity," "gynecomastia" (male breast development needing mastectomy), "suicidal
tendencies," "impaired temperature control," "dysphagia" (trouble swallowing),
"aspiration pneumonia," and "death." Nor are the other two drugs -- Paxil and
Klonopin without their own long lists of side effects. The more drugs given
simultaneously, the less the science and the greater the risks of injury and
death. Only in psychiatry do patients end up with multiple "diagnoses" (none of
them diseases), on multiple drugs.
"I want to know the cause of death," said Ray Johnson, Derek Johnson's father.
"Stacie said he was fine. Everything was normal. He kissed her goodnight and went
to sleep." All that is certain, is he never woke up.
Their loved ones should begin their painful quest for justice by writing the
president of the APA, Dr. Carolyn Robinowitz, (American Psychiatric Association,
1000 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 1825, Arlington, VA 22209) and, to the current
director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Dr. Thomas Insel, (National
Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 8184, MSC 9663,
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663) and ask them for proof that PTSD or any of their
psychiatric diagnoses or "disorders" are actual diseases, having, as they must a
confirming, objective, physical abnormality, gross (visible to the naked eye),
microscopic -- as in a Pap smear or biopsy, or, chemical -- as in the chemical
abnormalities of diabetes, galactosemia, gout or phenyketonuria. I suggest they do
this now, copying their US Representative, their own US Senator, Jay Rockefeller,
D-WV, and Senator Charles Grassley, R-IA.
*Fred A. Baughman Jr., MD, has discovered and described real diseases. He assumes
full responsibility for all statements herein.
fredbaughmanmd@cox.net
EL CAJON, CA 92019