Real Psychiatry

\   I wrote this editorial in 2010 for the Minnesota Psychiatric Society newsletter Ideas of Reference as part of my role as the Preside...

Most physicians first experience with treatment setting mismatches occur when they are medical students and residents.  The ethos of ...

The guidelines of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) are an interesting story in how guidelines are important if ...

This is the third Labor Day of this blog.  I usually take the opportunity to mark the lack of progress in the physician work environment an...

Thomas Insel, MD the current head of NIMH captured a few sound bites in a recent edition of Psychiatric News .  In it the following Inconven...

This YouTube video is fresh off my Facebook feed this morning from the APA.  It features American Psychiatric Association (APA) President J...

As I pointed out in a previous post , the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) a branch of the U.S. Department...

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...

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 don't know when it happened exactly but if I had to guess it was somewhere in the mid-1990's.  That was the time when quality ch...