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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 5)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses increases in suicide and homicide caused by antidepressant drugs. Recently, in browsing the internet on healthcare blogs, I came across one on the very timely topic of the increasing suicide rate. In Kansas the rise in suicide was 45 percent!

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Preface)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he introduces the book. healthcare, primarily “everyday” healthcare. However, there is in healthcare I find a large body of sound outcome research, but unfortunately this research seems to be completely ignored by many practitioners.

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

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the difference between basing a medical system on clinical belief versus one based on scientific evidence. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. trillion dollars a year on U.S.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Unfortunately, healthcare belief and opinion rather than science seem to rule too much of healthcare today.

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

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses off-label prescribing as well as physicians’ anti-science pushback against the use of well-conducted clinical trials. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare. Each Monday, a new section of the book is published, and all chapters are archived here.

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

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses the lack of evidence for antidepressants being better than placebo, as well as a note about ECT. This clinical opinion vs. science is also fundamental to many other of our quality and cost problems in healthcare today. The post Much of U.S.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 2, Part 7)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses antidepressants versus CBT, the buzz around ketamine and esketamine, and the new frontier of drugs for postpartum depression. The patient self-administers the esketamine nasal spray under the supervision of a healthcare provider in a certified doctor’s office or clinic.