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The Iatrogenic Gaze: How We Forgot That Psychiatry Could Be Harmful

Mad in America

I had some vague awareness that patients occasionally had a “bad reaction” to a pill, but I assumed that these reactions were one in a million and it never crossed my mind that something like permanent genital numbness could occur. Like Rosie, I became so distressed that my father had me involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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Social Media Discovers Managed Care and Rages - Or Not?

Real Psychiatry

I have been aware of United Healthcare for at least 30 years. 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. Will it lead to a typical Congressional show hearing where members manufacture outrage and nothing changes.