Real Psychiatry

The reality of psychiatry rather than the perception

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Pattern Matching in Psychiatric Diagnosis

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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 ...
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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Why A Checklist is Not A Psychiatric Diagnosis

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I was inspired by a post by Massimo Pugliucci on his excellent philosophy blog Rationally Speaking , to start using concept mapping software...
Saturday, July 20, 2013

Is the FDA objective enough to assess treatments in psychiatry - or is this just politics as usual?

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The American Psychiatric Association (APA) feed posted a link to this FDA news release regarding a new biological test for Attention Defici...
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Thursday, July 18, 2013

How to Improve the Accuracy of Psychiatric Diagnoses - My Take

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Allen Frances, MD has just blogged his   ideas about how to improve the accurac y  of psychiatric diagnoses.  His ideas basically come dow...
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

The Real Lesson of the George Zimmerman Trial

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The latest reality based media event has been the George Zimmerman trial.  Zimmerman shot and killed Trayvon Martin and most media outlets h...
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Insights from the Atomic City

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I was fortunate enough to hear Kathleen Flenikken on my way home from an informal dinner meeting last Thursday night.  In a way I was prime...
Thursday, July 11, 2013

More Talk on Psychiatry and the Affordable Care Act

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I guess the magical thinking about how a purely political initiative with absolutely no grounding in science will affect the practice of med...
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