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More … on … Eli … Lilly

Dec 21 2006 | Comments 0

I’m getting out of breath just typing that. Alex Berenson, of the NY Times, is on quite the roll, and I can barely keep up. I read something on a media website yesterday that suggested the Times is presenting all these multipart series as a way to curry awards favor in the last month before the big journalism awards are decided. Whatever the motivation, it’s great to see this kind of thing explored in a major newspaper like this. If the mainstream media actually held big pharma to account more often, I bet you’d see big changes.

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Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.