Rinke van den Brink (1955) is a writer who has covered healthcare for NOS Nieuws since 2005.
He started his career at De Waarheid and worked as a freelancer for VARA and VPRO radio. He was the Dutch correspondent for Wallonian broadcaster RTBF and newspaper Le Soir and editor for Vrij Nederland. Van den Brink wrote four books on right-wing extremism in Western Europe: ‘De Internationale van de Haat’ (1994), ‘L’Internationale de la Haine’ (1996), ‘De Jonge Turken van het Vlaams Blok’ (1999) and ‘In de greep van de angst’ (2005).
Of his book 'The end of antibiotics. How bacteria win over a wonder drug', a greatly expanded German version was published in 2015 'Das Ende der Antibiotika. Sieg der Bakterien über ein Allheilmittel'. An updated English-language edition of: 'The End of an Antibiotic Era. Bacteria's Triumph over a Universal Remedy'. Also published in 2021 was 'The Clinic in. Stakeholders on the emergence of the successful Dutch antibiotic policy'. In 2020, Van den Brink published 'Ik ben er weer. Heavily ill, saved by the psychiatrist', an autobiographical book dealing with a sepsis he suffered in 2017 due to a medical error that ended in severe psychosis.
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