Real Psychiatry

My views on "integrating" behavioral health and primary care are fairly well known.  They run counter to everyone including the Am...

I follow several economic and financial blogs and I came across this piece on looterism yesterday.  For those of you not interested in clic...

In a previous  post ,  I discussed Drucker's concept of “knowledge workers” and how that concept applied to psychiatrists and physicia...

The title of this post is an inside joke for psychiatrists.  90862 is the billing code associated with a psychiatric visit that is commonly...

As managed care organizations worked on how they could prioritize pricing over medical decisions they came up with various plans to “m...

I happened to start practicing psychiatry at a time when managed care was just starting to build momentum. From a political standpoint the...

It was obvious to me from day one that this was a business strategy.  When I worked in a hospital I wore a standard white coat and embroider...