Real Psychiatry

The above graphic is a headline search of mental health parity going back to 2004.  I was in the thick of things from 2009-2012 as the ...

"Why are there no leaders with vision in the APA who can focus us on the best science and the best psychiatry to provide treatment for ...

I was out of town at a Mayo Clinic seminar and while I was gone, Amazon sent me an e-mail.  My copy of American Psychosis - How the Federal ...

Last year I posted a Labor Day greeting to all of the docs laboring in American medicine.  I used the assembly line metaphor for obvious re...

I guess the magical thinking about how a purely political initiative with absolutely no grounding in science will affect the practice of med...

You know the kind of research I am talking about.  The research that shows that managed care is more cost effective and higher quality than ...

I wrote a previous post about the APA backing the so-called collaborative care model and provided a link to the actual diagram about how th...

A new article looking at conflict of interest in psychiatry was presented on another blog to suggest that new rules are required to improve...

When you have been as sensitized as I have to the rebranding of mental health services as " behavioral health " by the managed c...

More news on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the New York Times today. I certainly want to applaud the New York Times for including another...

The decision by the Supreme Court on June 28 regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has generated a lot of speculation ab...