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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. 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 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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Is Public Psychiatry Responding to the Mental Health Crisis or Just “Treating the Chart?”

Mad in America

The topic of mental health is on the public’s mind, whether it’s the popularizing of therapy speak, the increased attention paid to severe mental illness and homelessness, or pop psychology advice on TikTok. This scenario in public psychiatry settings is, unfortunately, a familiar one.

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Prescription Drugs: The Hidden Costs to Health and the Planet

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2024,” healthcare visits, procedures, tests, and vaccinations decreased but the number of new prescriptions saw a 3% increase. It has far-reaching effects—not just for individual health but for the environment. In certain cases, pharmaceuticals can harm public health. This is of concern to public health.

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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. Psychiatry has been going down this mental disease road for 75 years or more, and I doubt, for psychiatry, that there is any turning back.

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“There’s No Word for Depression in Zulu”: Inside South Africa’s Mental Health Crisis

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R esearch has found South Africa consistently ranks in the bottom three performing countries in terms of global mental health. Photo by tuxone The Mental State of the World Report measures the mental health of internet users only, making it limited in the South African context where close to one-third of the population isnt online.

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Don’t Call Me a Therapist

Mad in America

The author, Erik Rudi, voluntarily relinquishes the authority of being a “psychologist” and “healthcare professional.” I just think that it is your expression of a misunderstood, imprecise and outdated definition of what mental health work entails. The author, Erik Rudi. Psychologists cure nothing.