Real Psychiatry

During my tenure as an acute care psychiatrist, I had to reconcile a lot of medications. I was doing medication reconciliation before ...

The CDC came out with a brief 2 page report on kratom deaths 3 days ago (1). That was all it took for the Twitterati to proclaim ...

“Did you remember all of that noise I was making in the bathroom?   I was trying to kill myself.” The person I was talking wi...

One of the main reasons for me writing this blog is to discuss medication safety and adverse effects. This is no small task sin...

Cardiology factors prominently in psychiatry and psychiatric care. I have been fortunate on many occasions to work with psychiatrists w...

In the event that it is not obvious, the bulk of my career was spent as an acute care psychiatrist.  I staffed inpatient psychiatric unit...

I am going to keep this post brief and to the point.  This is advice that I routinely discuss with people who tell me that they have s...