William Heisel

<p><a href="http://www.grist.org/member/1554">Tom Philpott</a>, food editor for <a href="http://bit.ly/4BcniJ"><i>Grist</i></a&gt;, has been calling for an investigation into the connection between H1N1, or swine flu, and actual swine.

<p>Evan George graduated with a history degree from Occidental College. His mentor was legendary <i>Los Angeles Times</i> writer <a href="http://departments.oxy.edu/english_writing/test_faculty.htm">Bob Sipchen</a>, who got George interested in journalism. George spent some time at the late, lamented <i>LA Alternative</i> and the <i>Los Angeles Downtown News</i> before joining the legal news team at the <i>Los Angeles Daily Journal</i> two years ago.

<p>All Dr. Narinder Kumar had to do to stay in practice was make one phone call a day.</p> <p>The phone call was a little unusual but straightforward. Kumar, a pediatrician in Davenport, Iowa, had to call a lab with a contract with the Iowa Board of Medicine to find out whether he had to give a urine sample that day. Kumar had agreed to this arrangement in May 2006.</p>

<p>Employees everywhere sleep a little easier knowing that their company covers the bulk of the cost of their disability insurance. If they are hit by a car or fall of their roof or incur some other injury that prevents them from working, they can count at least a modest income from their insurance policy.</p><p>At least that's how the insurance company's brochures make it sound.</p>

<p>Career archivist Kim Klausner takes her roles as a historian and as a public health advocate equally seriously. As the Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager for the University of California-San Francisco, she is in charge of the <a href="http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/">Drug Industry Documents Archive</a>, a collection of thousands of records that shine a light on practices by Wyeth, Pfizer, Abbott and other Big Pharma companies.</p>

<p><a href="/blogs/2009/07/01/wrong-doctor-or-wrong-patient-michael-jacksons-physician-has-some-explaining-do">Dr. Conrad Murray</a>, accused of giving Michael Jackson a lethal dose of <a href="/blogs/see-michael-jackson-doctor%E2%80%99s-alleged-slipup-look-label">propofol</a>, has told a judge that

<p>A colleague of mine, Dave Wasson, came back from a reporting conference once and passed on a bit of wisdom he had picked up: "If you ever hear someone say that something is a win-win, you know that someone is losing big time." </p>

<p>I have made that phrase a maxim that has never steered me wrong.</p>

<p>Perhaps more than anyone who has ever written about ghostwriting in medical literature, Kim Klausner knows where the bodies are buried. Klausner is the Industry Documents Digital Libraries Manager for the University of California-San Francisco, which means she is in charge of the <a href="http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/">Drug Industry Documents Archive</a>, a collection of thousands of documents that detail how the drug industry has used continuing medical education and medical literature to help market its products. </p>

<p><a href="http://bit.ly/18cLuK">Dr. Cleveland Enmon</a>, the Stockton physician accused of stealing a retired police officer's watch as the officer was dying, may have learned by example.</p> <p>Enmon went through his residency at the most infamous hospital on the West Coast: <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-kingdrewpulitzer-sg,1… Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center</a> in Los Angeles. While there, he worked in the emergency room alongside Dr. Ahmed Rashed.</p>

<p>Antidote promised in an earlier post to revisit the case of Dr. John Eden, who <a href="http://bit.ly/MF7AL">told Antidote</a> he regretted working with a ghostwriter who had been paid by Wyeth to write an article about hormone replacement therapy (HRT).</p>