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Dr J.A. Costa e Silva, Director
Division of Mental Health and
Prevention of Substance Abuse
World Health Organisation/OMS,
CH-1211 GENEVA 27 Switzerland

3 November 1998

Dear Dr. Costa e Silva,

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Thank you for your letter of 21 October. I am sorry we were unable to meet last month, and the moment has now rather passed. However, I will let you know if I expect to be in Geneva in the near future.

In the meantime, I would be grateful if you could advise me if you do plan to hold at any stage in the future any discussion of the risks and benefits of antidepressants which I might be allowed to attend. To my mind, the evidence is accumulating of a serious problem; major questions about risks remain unanswered nearly a year after the publication of my paper.

Yours sincerely,
Charles Medawar

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