Mad in America

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). trillion dollars in 2018 or $11,172.00 The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. per person or 17.7%

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Mad in America

JULY 10, 2024

As a journalist—much like how Robert Whitaker’s journalism led to Mad in America—I was curious about why, in a healthcare system that’s continually expanding with more medications, people are still feeling so sick. In 2018, the U.K. How did it come about? Hotz: I think there are two answers. Where did this term even come up?

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Mad in America

JUNE 26, 2024

They can exist either within or outside of traditional healthcare systems. But within the context of mental health and the mental healthcare system, it’s unusual, isn’t it? My lab was founded in 2018. In grad school, I had the best health insurance I’ve ever had in my whole life. Or is it a combination?

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Mad in America

OCTOBER 24, 2024

What saved her was that her private insurance ran out. 51] Can anything be worse than this in healthcare? Jyllands-Postens Kronik 2018;Feb 3. [44] They diagnosed psychotic depression and forced her to stay and take a dangerous cocktail of drugs. But her 11-year-old son Oscar knew it was the pills. CMAJ 2017;189:E194-203. [43]

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ADDitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

44 Behavioral therapy is used by just 44% of pediatric patients, in part because its not always covered by medical insurance and knowledgeable providers are scarce. In addition, neurofeedback is seldom covered by insurance and involves a significant investment of time and money. 2018 Jan;141(1):e20172465. Pediatrics. Pediatrics.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

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). 2018; Life After ECT Inc., 2018; Life After ECT Inc., Dubey, 2018). ECT is still controversial (Alibhai, 2022; Archer et al.,

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