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Kids Are Not the Problem: An Interview With Gretchen LeFever Watson

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She has served as a professor in multiple disciplines at universities and medical schools in the United States and abroad and as the patient safety director for a large healthcare system. In 2008, BMJ recognized her as one of 100 international scientists journalists could count on for unbiased reviews of health research.

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For-Profit Healthcare Is a Predator; Its Main Prey Is Our Young

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S ince the 1990s, weve been hearing about the amazing progress in mental healthcare: We learned that mental illnesses like depression are serious but treatable diseases. 3) America has focused its mental illness awareness, education, and screening campaigns on children. Suffering is the main reason people seek healthcare.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

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McCarthy Vahey , and distinguished members of the Connecticut Public Health Committee : I am sharing the following information related to H.B. ECT is a psychiatric treatment for clinical depression and other mental health conditions in which electrical impulses are passed through a persons brain to cause brief seizures (Egan, 2018).