Sunday, October 14, 2018

What Do Surgeons and Psychiatrists Have In Common? - Dread

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I have had two surgeries this summer that have really impacted my work and daily life.  I only consent to surgery if it is a proble...
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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Biomedical or Biopsychosocial or Psychopharmacologist?

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Elements of a psychiatric evaluation Apparently these are desperate times for some professionals.  So desperate that they have nothing...
Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Moderation Policy - Reposted

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With a recent post from Scotland to a blog post from 4 years ago as well as an high frequency of advertising related posts - I decided to re...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

Drug Overdoses As A Proxy For Drug Epidemics

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Figure 1 - Mortality rates from unintentional drug overdoses. (A and B) Mortality rates for (A) individual drugs and (B) all d...
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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Components of Patient Outcome

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It is a good idea to go back and take a look at some basic components that predict patient outcome in medical (including surgical) treat...
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Sunday, September 30, 2018

Anti-ECT Rhetoric ........

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There is probably no clearer example of the pernicious effect of rhetoric in psychiatry than what has happened with electroconvulsive t...
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Sunday, September 16, 2018

To All Of The Opioid Epidemic Deniers........

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I encountered an absolutely stunning piece the other day about how there really was no opioid epidemic.  The author's various argumen...
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