White Coat, Black Hat

Dennis Rosen reviews White Coat Black Hat in the Boston Globe.  They have a comments section, just so you know.

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Dr. Carl Elliott

The Wall Street Journal Health Blog interviewed Dr. BFD.  Nothing new, same old horseshit; don’t waste your time. But check out the good stuff in the comments section:

• “This guy is a  self-righteous prig . . . I don’t know who is more biased, this J.O. or pharma”
  -pompous
• “I don’t know what self-righteous moon colony Elliott’s living in, but it’s most certainly inhabited by Olympic finger waggers Catherine DeAngelis, Marcia Angell, and Daniel Carpenter. Now there’s a party.”
  – bmartinmd
• “Obviously, this guy stole these ideas from his brother.  Plus, he got them wrong”
  – Anonymous

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Dear Professor Elliott,

We are wondering if you are aware of this website: 

www.whitecoatblackhat.com

It appears to have been written by a very disgruntled brother of yours.

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Here we go again.  Apparently, we’re supposed to put together some sort of speaking engagements/readings page for the website.  After all, when your book makes it to #10,000 in the Amazon rankings, you find there are all sorts of people out there hoping to bask in your greatness.

Fine.  Here’s something:  Carl works in the Center for Bioethics at the Boynton Health Center on Church Street.  If you show up, he’ll probably read something to you.  For tips, he might even come to your house and read it there.  Happy now?

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How to Break into Wrestling

Before you click on that link to Amazon tomorrow, think about the other books you can get for that money.  “Judo” Gene LeBell walks you through “all the classic holds like the full nelson and the Boston crab . . .  illegal moves like elbow grinds and fishhooks, aerial maneuvers like flipping off the top rope and much, much more!”  If you have an older brother, this is the book for you.

If you choose to buy White Coat, Black Hat instead, then someday find yourself unable to get out of somebody’s sleeper hold, well, you have nobody to blame but yourself.

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Cain and Abel

Nice going. Publish an article in the Chronicle Review and name-check your younger brother. Which younger brother? The one who has NOT been up late coding your website. Typical.

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A Ghost Writer

This Beacon Press page asks a “study question” on Carl Elliott’s discussion of medical ghostwriters:  “How much moral responsibility should medical ghostwriters bear for their work?.”

Nice.  Of course, nothing in Dr. Elliott’s book is ghostwritten.  Nothing at all.  No connections between his book and, say, emails sent to him between April and June 2009, or long conversations at the parents’ house at Christmastime.  Nopers.  Not a thing.

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$24,95. Gun sold separately.

A horse head mask. Fun for Halloween, or just around the neighborhood. For extra laughs, put it in the bed of one of your enemies. Shotgun sold separately.

You’ll be done with White, Coat, Black Hat in 2-3 hours, but a horse head mask will give you a lifetime of fun.

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Unknown Hinson CD. Or better yet, cover charge to a concert. No contest; this man is awesome.

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The publicity surrounding a Florida preacher’s plans to burn the Qur’an on 9/11 reminds us of the visceral appeal that book-burning seems to offer to deranged, angry mobs.

Carl Elliott’s book, White Coat Black Hat will be available in bookstores starting September 14.  Just saying.

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$6.76. You could buy three of these.

Actual white coats and black hats.  Turns out the Paintball and Productive Gear website is selling velvet fedoras AND Dr. BFD’s book on the same page.

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Well, this, for starters:

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Some days are just really good days.

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The New York Times’ Freakonomics blog reports on a new marketing strategy known as “unbranding” — upscale companies sending their competitors’ goods to downmarket celebrities, as a way of damaging the competitors’ brands.

Gifts to Carl Elliott can be sent to his university address, located on the University of Minnesota’s website.

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In one day, White Coat, Black Hat has moved to #41,390 on the Amazon.com bestsellers list.  On a related note,  Dr. Elliott’s September 15 book-signing event has been moved to the sidewalk in front of his house.  Look for a white cargo truck with boxes labeled Beacon Press.

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White Coat, Black Hat is just a heartbeat away from making it into Amazon’s top 17,000 books. Only 260 more to go. We are so proud.

Pick up a copy on Sept. 15 from the remainder bin of your local bookstore.

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The New Yorker

Note to aspiring writers out there:  If you ever hire (sorry:  VOLUNTEER) a family member to set up a website telling everybody how great you are, and how much everybody loves your book, and then somehow you get published in some big fancypants magazine – well, you might want to tell said Family Member about the article sometime before it disappears from the newsstands.  Your Family Member does not sit around all the goddamn day googling your name to see if anything interesting shows up.  This is what we call WEB CONTENT.  You publish something, you post it on your website, people go out and buy the magazine.  Then you can go out and use the money to buy trinkets.  Is that hard?

It’s not like the Family Member will not learn about your article eventually.  At Thanksgiving, for example, or at Christmas dinner, or every friggin time he calls home, he will hear that you published something in the New Yorker.  That’s understood.

Whatever.  Anyway, here’s Carl’s article in the New Yorker. It’s an abstract.  You have to pay for the full thing.

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In fact, he kind of looks like him, doesn’t he?

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The WETA Book Studio lists White Coat, Black Hat as one of September’s Top 10 Reads.  Obviously, they have not read it yet.

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