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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

Clinical Iatrogenesis In medicine, clinical iatrogenesis comprises all conditions for which physicians and other medical professionals, hospitals and other medical facilities, and their treatments are the causes of various types of harm, including death.

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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?

Real Psychiatry

Her rational is that if you see a loved one die because an insurance company denied care it is natural to want to see that person dead and this is not advocating homicide. If a company decides it is not going to cover a medication or a procedure or a hospitalization the general message to the patient is you are out of luck.

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Upcoming ECT Legislation Needs to Be Revised

Mad in America

I made a few significant suicide attempts, broke my feet and legs, fractured my spine, and was hospitalized at San Francisco General Hospital and then Hartford Hospital. Electroconvulsive Therapy, Manufacturers Liability, and Learned Intermediaries. Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment.