Real Psychiatry

  I had this idea about how to present the complexity of the psychiatric diagnostic and treatment process.   After putting up a couple of di...

I went back in today for a one week follow up of laser surgery for a retinal tear .  An acute problem always brings some issues into fo...

The word gout in the above opening sentence from the chapter in UpToDate (1) can be replaced with any one of the major psychiatric ...

An article entitled Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders in the Netherlands 2011-2014 caught my eye in...

I have been a member of the Movement Disorder Society since 1993.  I decided to join after having nothing but positive experiences at th...

I first heard about pattern matching and the importance it has in medical diagnosis over 30 years ago.  A friend of mine who was in medical ...

I was inspired by a post by Massimo Pugliucci on his excellent philosophy blog Rationally Speaking , to start using concept mapping software...

Allen Frances, MD has just blogged his   ideas about how to improve the accurac y  of psychiatric diagnoses.  His ideas basically come dow...