CorpWatch : Doctoring the Evidence: GlaxoSmithKline Pushes Depression Drug

CorpWatch : Doctoring the Evidence: GlaxoSmithKline Pushes Depression Drug

http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14606

by Shelley Jofre, Special to Corp Watch


July 30th, 2007


A striking young woman with a talent for painting, Sharise Gatchell was - like many teenagers - painfully self-conscious. At 14, she moved with her family from South Africa to England where at first she found it hard to make friends. By the age of 16 she was acutely embarrassed that her periods hadn't started and felt she was sweating excessively. Just the sort of thing to make adolescence even more painful than usual. Her mother, Stephanie, took her to see a consultant physician at the local hospital. Stephanie Gatchell recalls:


"During that consultation she became a bit emotional because she was explaining to him about the problems she had and how it affected her social life. Then she started crying

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