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Doctor’s lucrative ties to drug firm

Executives inside pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca faced a high-stakes dilemma. On one hand, Chicago psychiatrist Dr. Michael Reinstein was bringing the company a small fortune in sales and was conducting research...
Shirley Palmer's brother Alvin Essary died at a nursing home on the North Side in 1999 of clozapine intoxication. Palmer, of Bloomington, Ill., said she can't believe the doctor who prescribed the drug to Essary is still practicing.

Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate

Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patients suffered from side effects so severe that they trembled, hallucinated or lost control of their bladders. Staffers told state investigators...
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One psychiatrist, many prescriptions

No psychiatrist in Illinois -- or Texas, Florida and California, for that matter -- has come close to Dr. Michael Reinstein in prescribing the antipsychotic drug clozapine to public aid...
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Doctor gives risky drugs at high rate

Inside Chicago's Maxwell Manor nursing home, Dr. Michael Reinstein's patients suffered from side effects so severe that they trembled, hallucinated or lost control of their bladders. Staffers told state investigators...