{"id":1494393,"date":"2022-05-27T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494393"},"modified":"2022-05-27T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:14:46","slug":"fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Official In Charge Of Evaluating New Drugs Hospitalized For \u2018Mental Disorder\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffda-official-in-charge-of-evaluating-new-drugs-hospitalized-for-mental-disorder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494393&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A top federal official in charge of evaluating the safety of drugs was hospitalized against his will this month for an unspecified \u201cmental disorder,\u201d prompting concern over his fitness for the role he said includes making \u201cmajor decisions that impact on public health,\u201d\u00a0The Daily Wire has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jeffrey Siegel, director of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s Office of Drug Evaluation Sciences, was transported from his home to a hospital for \u201cmental disorder\u201d at 3 a.m. on May 9, according to\u00a0Montgomery County, Maryland, police dispatch logs reviewed by The Daily Wire.\u00a0Police declined to release a report on the incident despite a Freedom of Information Act request, but Siegel wrote about being taken from his home in a rambling note left on a neighborhood listserv.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-386830\" class=\"wp-image-386830 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/transport.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1479\" height=\"97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/transport.png 1479w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/transport-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/transport-1024x67.png 1024w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/transport-768x50.png 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-386830\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police log.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c15 minutes later I saw bright red and blue lights (I may have the colors wrong) outside the house and then EMTs in our house who started to ask me to please come with them,\u201d Siegel wrote in the note, more than a week after his hospitalization. \u201cThinking I was being asked to go voluntarily I politely declined. They insisted. Finally, they turned me around in the steps of my front hallway on Moorland Lane, handcuffed me, forced me unto a gurney, tied me down, took me in the ambulance to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One neighbor who received the missive via Nextdoor expressed concern about Siegel\u2019s ability to do his job, given that Siegel also wrote that he\u00a0makes \u2018major decisions that impact on public health.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am frankly left a little bit worried for the soundness of operations at our FDA, if indeed that is true,\u201d the neighbor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/diaglobal.org\/en\/conference-listing\/meetings\/2021\/10\/digital-technology-in-clinical-trials\/speakers\">biography<\/a> of Siegel states that he leads the office that \u201coversees Clinical Outcome Assessments, Biomarker Qualification, Research and Bioinformatics\u201d in the Office of New Drugs. An FDA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/71014\/download\">org chart<\/a> says that the deputy director position is vacant, and that he is also leading the \u201cDivision of Biomecial [sic] Informaci [sic], Research &#038; Biomaker [sic] Dev.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siegel posted the note with\u00a0pictures of bruised wrists, apparently sustained during a struggle with paramedics who were restraining him, complained about \u201cbrain fog,\u201d and lashed out out a particular doctor for not giving him drugs he was seeking.<\/p>\n<p>Siegel did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>In his note, Siegel boasted how his \u201cjob carries a lot of responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFinally, I realized this was not voluntary but had been ordered by someone against my will\u2026 so I stopped resisting. When in the hospital I was given a clean bill of heath [sic] including CT and MRI and they sent me home on Tuesday with no diagnosis,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the problem didn\u2019t end there. I had trouble sleeping so I asked [the doctor] for something to sleep. She refused,\u201d he said. He claimed he paid her practice between $12,000 and $18,000 a year and asked \u201cif anyone knows of a good lawyer (and I\u2019m not the litigious type, but I feel I\u2019m the injured party here).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors responded by questioning his account, with saying that someone had filed an \u201cemergency petition\u201d against him, and another speculating that it was his wife, not the doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis glass of juice has leaks in it, I would suggest a psychologist, rather than a lawyer. Good luck getting the mental health help you need,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>Siegel, for his part, commented on the thread that he had \u201cNo COVID. Thank goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/fda-s-revolving-door-companies-often-hire-agency-staffers-who-managed-their-successful\">Science.org<\/a> article titled \u201cFDA\u2019s revolving door: Companies often hire agency staffers who managed their successful drug reviews,\u201d published in 2018, reported that Siegel back in 2010 oversaw the approval of an arthritis drug from Genentech, and months later left the agency to join the company and represented it \u201cbefore his former FDA colleagues when the company sought approval\u201d to promote the drug for other conditions. He said the timing of his decision was coincidental.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jeffrey Siegel is Office Director of the Office of Drug Evaluation Sciences within the Office of New Drugs for the Food and Drug Administration. 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