Real Psychiatry

There is no better marker of the rickety psychiatric infrastructure in the USA than the lack of psychiatric beds.  A close second is ho...

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 ...

This is my fourtth Labor Day writing this blog and it is my custom to summarize the work environment for physicians like I did in Happy ...

In a rather stunning reversal of thirty years of public policy, the Minnesota Legislature voted last week to fund for a "network o...

An article was published in the JAMA recently where three ethicists argue for the return of asylum care.  It has become an expected fla...

A colleague forwarded me a link to a newspaper article today about the latest Twin Cities managed care innovations for treating people with...

I was shocked to see this article posted on a CBS web site.  I was shocked because I was completely unaware  that such a...

Up until fairly recently, every psychiatrist at some point in their career was aware of a state hospital system.  The state hospitals we...

On my drive home from work yesterday, I heard an outrageous story about a judge ordering LA County jail to build 3,200 psychiatric beds ...