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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 3)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. and his research group in London, England (see Medscape, July 24, 2020) called for the immediate suspension of electroshock therapy (ECT) because of the absence of evidence to prove its efficacy in treating so called resistant depression, at least until research proves its effectiveness!

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. As I edited and added to this section in February 2020, I noticed a number of TV commercials about the management of TD. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 6) appeared first on Mad In America. meprobamate) as well. To see the list of all references cited, click here.

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Antipsychotics Lead to Worse Outcomes in First-Episode Psychosis

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The researchers note that these services are provided to the entire population as needed and recorded in the registry based on their universal healthcare system. Next, the researchers wanted to see if those who eventually did end up on antipsychotics fared worse if there was a delay.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. The cost of these drugs was projected to be $62 billion in 2020, not including physician office visits to prescribe and monitor the patients on these drugs. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 1) appeared first on Mad In America. The post Much of U.S.

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Elder Eyes Wide Shut

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I Care a Lot, starring Rosamund Pike, dropped on Netflix in 2020. How many more horrors could we take in 2020? Lilly keeps saying it feels like a movie, when I remember… I’ve seen this movie. It is a horror movie veiled by black comedy. He said he entered this world as I did, with reluctance and skepticism.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

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B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). These called for a radical change in the practice and organization of mental health care across the world. If only the special rapporteur were reasonable, he would agree.

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Human Suffering as Numbers and Graphs: The Problem with Measuring Outcomes in Therapy

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In a recent article , however, I examined the research-base, finding that outcome monitoring is less helpful than is generally thought, and how its growing predominance can be attributed to sociopolitical influences in our healthcare systems.