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Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically

Mad in America

I was still only 17 years old but it was a great relief after the horrendous years I had spent at an all-girls boarding school. My fellow students and I started our first year ‘pre-clinical’ training with 4 ½ days a week of lectures. Those who failed would have one chance to re-sit and if unsuccessful, they would have to leave medical school.

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Alcohol Detox and Withdrawal: Symptoms and Treatments 

Clear Behavioral Health

When feeling more confident about the detox process, you make the right choice for your health and future. When feeling more confident about the detox process, you make the right choice for your health and future. Within the first 24 hours, the initial mental and physical symptoms will surface from alcohol withdrawal syndrome [1].

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Why Failed Psychiatry Lives On: Its Industrial Complex, Politics, & Technology Worship

Mad in America

Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) from 2002-2015, acknowledged in 2011, “Whatever we’ve been doing for five de­cades, it ain’t working. adults now takes an antidepressant”; however, Time continued, “Mental health is getting worse by multiple metrics.