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What is Telemedicine?

My Psychiatry

Moreover, other technologies that might be used to make online telecommunication happen include facsimile, medical data transmission, full-motion videos, robotics, and virtual reality interfaces. ( It also involves a psychiatrist support system of primary healthcare workers by offering psychiatric evaluations to the patients online.

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

Mad in America

However, in addition to these financial and political explanations, a fundamental cultural reason why psychiatry lives on is Western society’s worship of technology—but I’m getting ahead of myself. Psychiatry’s technology history is one of repeated failures. million in consulting fees from drug makers from 2000 to 2007.

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Szasz and the Liberation of the “Mental Patient”

Mad in America

It is not uncommon to come across rightfully indignant comments from people who have been ascribed such psychotic labels that “Having bipolar disorder doesn’t excuse you from being a criminal!” They are and always have been in full control of their actions. or “Schizophrenic people aren’t inherently prone to violence!”