Australia's "BBC" Interviews Dawdy About Zyprexa
Remember we posted about former Seattle Weeklyite Philip Dawdy's blogging on mad meds the other week?
Now Australia's ABC Radio National has interviewed him. Dawdy's account of his brush with radio down under is here. Here's the ABC teaser:
The Zyprexa story
Pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly (makers of Prozac) have agreed to pay upwards of 1.2 billion US dollars to nearly 30,000 patients who claim their bestseller antipsychotic medication, Zyprexa (Olanzapine) has caused diabetes, weight gain and other complications; and that these risks were downplayed. Secret documents are leaked, the newspaper headlines start screaming, and citizen journalists spread the word -- but where is the real advocacy for better drugs with fewer side effects?
Where is the advocacy? Man, that all sounds exciting. Dawdy claims there will be a podcast containing his 6 minutes of fame. Hey fucking KUOW: Big story. Your backyard. Or is there some entrepreneurial mom who bakes cupcakes in her Volvo you haven't interviewed yet?
(Apologies to cupcake-making moms everywhere: you're loved. Oh god how you're loved.)
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