2016 Aging and mental health Hospitality 
Mad in America
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
In public health, we talk about death. We aim to protect, preserve, and promote the health of individuals and their communities. We don’t examine the health effects of this person’s absence. In this sense, it’s odd that we rarely think about death as an exposure with downstream health risks.
Mad in America
APRIL 16, 2024
3,4 This estimate was derived from a 1998 meta-analysis of 39 US studies where monitors recorded all adverse drug reactions that occurred while the patients were in hospital, or which were the reason for hospital admission. If we apply this estimate to USA, we get 315,000 annual drug deaths in hospitals. times as many.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Mad in America
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Linda Andre spent the last eight years of her life institutionalized at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center, where she died by suicide this month at age 63. In Doctors of Deception , she wrote about the unquantifiable, permanent harm she experienced at age 24 from 15 coerced shock treatments at New York Hospital: “My life was stolen.
Mad in America
OCTOBER 24, 2024
noted that it is a myth that mental disorders play a significant role in at least 90% of suicides. [6] 6] In most cases, there is no preexisting mental disorder. However, meta-analyses of the randomised trials have found that depression pills double not only the risk of suicide; they also double suicides, with no age limits. [11]
Centre for Mental Health
DECEMBER 1, 2024
The nations mental health is getting worse, with an especially significant increase in levels of distress among children and young people over recent years. The health and social costs of maternal depression, anxiety, and psychosis were estimated to carry long-term economic and social costs of approximately 8.1
Mad in America
JULY 18, 2024
The opening roll of this classic skit: In the Middle Ages, medicine was still in its infancy. Herbal medicine, eclectic medicine, and homeopathic medicine were some of the pre-1850 approaches to health that, whatever faults they might have had, did not encourage practitioners to bleed their patients to death or poison them with mercury.
College of Psychiatrists of Ireland
MARCH 7, 2025
She is a Consultant in Later Life Psychiatry with Mayo Mental Health Services. I enjoyed the team working, the holistic approach and the very human touch that psychiatry employs in delivering health care. Stigmatisation of those with mental illness. Did you always want to be psychiatrist? Do any challenges remain?
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
129 
Let's personalize your content