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Tales of a migrant worker in the global economy
Patrick D Hahn
- Location
- Cape Coast, Ghana
- Birthday
- June 07
- Bio
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MY RECENT POSTS
- Ya gotta die of something
May 30, 2012 06:10AM - The Gold Coast Regiment
May 12, 2012 03:51PM - "Our tragedies often start
before we are born"
April 26, 2012 04:35AM - "A carrot growing out of my
forehead"
April 18, 2012 04:40PM - Return to Molé National Park
March 19, 2012 03:34AM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Wow. More,
please.”
May 29, 2012 11:32AM - “Oh, by the way, General
Cunningham was an Irishman.
I'm just
sayin'...”
May 29, 2012 11:26AM - “"Duct tape doesn't
really patch everything; it
sort of helps
things hang
in…”
May 27, 2012 07:21AM - “The notion that we are
fragile creatures kept alive
only by
dint of constant
medi…”
May 27, 2012 06:36AM - “Robert Kennedy Junior
had his marriage to his first
wife
anulled, AFTER they
had…”
May 24, 2012 02:44PM
Patrick D Hahn's Links
- The Psychopharmaceutical-Industrial Complex
- Listening to Peter Kramer
- Chantix: killing more than just your desire to smoke
- Chantix: for people who are dying to quit smoking UPDATED
- Chantix: is suicide an expected event?
- Exploding the antidepressant myth
- Throughput in the psychiatrist's office
- A depressing proposal
- The astonishing rise of mental illness in America
- Part 6: Why psych meds are not "like insulin for diabetes" continued
- Part 5: Why psych meds are not "like insulin for diabetes"
- Part 4: A manufactured epidemic
- Part 3: An invented disorder
- Part 2
- Part 1
- Big fat lies
- Part 11: News flash: exercise burns fat
- Part 10: Chunky monkeys
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6
- Part 5
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- Is screening for cancer a giant con job?
- Part 10
- Part 9
- Part 8
- Part 7
- Part 6
- Part 5
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- The Gold Coast
- The Gold Coast Regiment
- Return to Molé National Park
- In search of Aboatia Part 2 UPDATED
- The flying fish of Nzema
- The sea turtles of Nzema
- In search of Aboatia Part 1
- Taking a break from Open Salon
- The crocodiles of Egyambra
- The elephants of Molé National Park
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
- The Holy Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia
- Gondar
- Harar
- The Castle of Saint George at Elmina
- Imrahana Christos
- Laibela
- Debra Zion
- Tana Kirkos
- The Church of Saint Mary at Axum
- The Cradle of Humanity
- Only in Ethiopia
- Ethiopian cuisine
- The Red Terror Museum in Addis Ababa
- Axum
- Trampled Rose: giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- The diagnosis
- The Land of Burnt Faces
- The Cradle of Humanity
- The Medical-Industrial Complex
- Ya gotta die of something
- The Vampire of the Caribbean
- One of the deadliest prescription drugs ever
- News flash: public playgrounds harbor germs
- Are statin drugs the new thalidomide?
- GlaxoSmithKline: making a killing
- Kermit Gosnell update
- A fat-headed idea
- Doctor Kermit Gosnell's Little Shop of Horrors
- In memory of David Reimer
- The House of Frankenstein
- Time to re-think our strategy in the War On Cancer
- Trampled Rose: giving Ethiopian women a second chance
- Man is more than a dildo
- The diagnosis
- I hope he fails
- President Obama, healthcare reform, and Animal Farm
- Animal experimentation and the shining city on the sea
- The checkup
- Health care, breast cancer, and "Benefits-eligible" employees
- "Death panels," prostate cancer, and health care rationing
- Letter from physicians to the American people and my reply
- Pulling the plug on Grandma
- They're as mad as heck and they're not gonna take it anymore
- The most important thing to remember about health care
- Review of "Our Daily Meds" by Melody Peterson
- Time to pull the plug on employer-based health insurance
- The health care industry tips its hand
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion? Part 2
- Should doctors kill? Part 3
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Physician, heal thyself
- Should doctors kill? Part 2 EDITOR'S PICK
- On driving a spike through a child's eye sockets
- Has medicine become the modern-day substitute for religion?
- Free market versus "socialized medicine"= A false choice
- Blaming the uninsured EDITOR'S PICK
- A tepid defense of animal experimentation
- Why do people say heart transplants "save lives?" UPDATED
- The perils of genetic engineering
- Should doctors kill?
- Vassals of the Medical-Industrial Complex
- The War On Drugs
- Part 5: Jose Guerena shooting update
- Part 4
- Part 3
- Part 2
- Part 1
- The Nutritional-Industrial Complex
- Myplate: should the government be telling us what to eat?
- Big surprise: Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies at 29
- Eat your vegetables -- or else! UPDATED
- Fresh takes up where Food Inc. leaves off
- Food Inc. pulls back the veil
- High-fructose corn syrup and highly misleading advertising
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal Part 2
- Michael Pollan's subversive proposal: Eat food
- War On Food EDITOR'S PICK
- Personal reminiscences
- Remembering Mom UPDATED FOR MOTHER'S DAY 2012
- Bully for you
- An extraordinary woman
- The lizards of Echo Canyon Park
- The greatest summertime song EVER
- Thoughts on Valentine's Day
- Goodbye to all that
- Remembering Grampa
- Remembering Uncle Walter
- Remembering Doctor Heller
- Personal essays
- The Washouts
- The Small Girl
- Books of interest
- How We Die by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.
- The Origins of AIDS by Jacques Pepin, M.D.
- Blood Feud: The Man Who Blew the Whistle on One of the Deadliest Prescription Drugs Ever
- Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker
- The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch, Ph.D.
- Overdiagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit of Health by H. Gilbert Welch, M.P.H., M.D.
- Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
- Blaming the Brain: the Truth About Drugs and Mental Health by Elliot S. Valenstein Ph.D.
- Our Daily Meds by Melody Peterson
- In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
- Overdo$ed America by John Abramson, M.D.
- The Truth About the Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.
- Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
- Uninsured in America by Susan Starr Sered, Ph.D., and Rushika Fenrandopulle, Ph.D.
- Sick Girl by Amy Silverstein
- Sick by Jonathan Cohn
- Overtreated by Shannon Brownlee
- Worried Sick by Nortin M. Hadler, M.D.
- My Lobotomy by Howard Dully
- Should I Be Tested for Cancer by H. Gilbert Welch, M.D., M.P.H.
- The Lobotomist by Jack El-Hai
- Medical Nemesis by Ivan Ilich
- Confessions of a Medical Heretic by Robert S. Mendelsohn, M.D.
Richard Rider
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Lucinda Bliss
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TimingLogic
Patrick Frank
Salon.com
Comments
Have a great trip to Germany.....see you then
stop the advance of the 451s