Friday, April 26, 2013

A Grand DSM critique from Health Affairs

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There is a large Health Affairs article that just became available online.  It criticizes (what else) the DSM 5.  The article and its in...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Psychiatric care versus gun control - an expected outcome

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Just in case you are keeping score the Senate voted down some modest gun control proposals last week.  The issue of coming together over men...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Penis Size and the Primitive State of Sexual Consciousness

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On the   Nature   blog this week, there was a summary of an article originally posted in   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Bipartisan Agreement on Treating Mental Illness - Believe It when You See It

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The New York Times has an incredibly naive article on how legislators may be split on gun control but both parties support better care for ...
Sunday, April 7, 2013

The “Spike” in ADHD diagnoses

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There was the usual furor in the press earlier this week about a CDC Study that suggested that ADHD diagnoses have spiked up to 11%.  A pr...

The Duty to Warn, Law Enforcement and the Public Health

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The issue of reporting dangerousness to law enforcement was in the news this week with a story 2 days ago about the accused Colorado theat...
Sunday, March 31, 2013

A Primer on the Utilization Game

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I want to post some references on the issue of "overutilization" but it is necessary to review the concept before I can post tho...
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