Showing posts with label severe mental illness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label severe mental illness. Show all posts
Saturday, October 1, 2016

Cancer Care In Psychiatry - Yes It Happens

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Great Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital in the New England Journal of Medicine this week.  A psychiatrist is present...
Saturday, August 1, 2015

Admission, Discharge and Readmission Policies - No Better Example Of Business Driven Pseudoscience

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One of the recurrent themes of this blog is that the application of science to medicine, especially at the public policy level has pl...
Saturday, March 7, 2015

The Chai Man

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Back in the 1970s I was in the US Peace Corps in Kenya East Africa.  I worked in an all boys school as a chemistry teacher.  The school...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

A Return To Asylums Will Not Stop The Rationing

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An article was published in the JAMA recently where three ethicists argue for the return of asylum care.  It has become an expected fla...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Minnesota Continues A Flawed Approach To Serious Mental Illness And Aggression

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I was shocked to see this article posted on a CBS web site.  I was shocked because I was completely unaware  that such a...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

What Is Really Going On At The Minnesota Security Hospital?

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The Minneapolis StarTribune posted a recent story about the Minnesota Security Hospital (MSH) on December 27, 2013 that was updated today....
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Sunday, October 6, 2013

"Some Sort of Mental Health Issue"

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I was getting ready for work yesterday morning and watching The Today Show in the background as usual.  Suddenly there was the story of a y...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Buy This Book

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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 ...
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Saturday, August 17, 2013

Straight Talk About the Government Dismantling Care for Serious Mental Illness

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The ShrinkRap blog posted a link to an E. Fuller Torrey and D.J. Jaffe  editorial in the National Review about how the government has dis...