Enlarge this image “The profession we love has been taken over,” psychiatrist and novelist Samuel Shem tells NPR, “with us sitting there in front of screens all day, doing data entry in a computer factory.” Catie Dull/NPR hide caption toggle caption Catie Dull/NPR “Don’t read The House of God,” one of my professors told me… Read More: Novelist Doctor Skewers Corporate Medicine In ‘Man’s 4th Best Hospital’… »
By Charles Silver and David A. Hyman Oct. 3, 2019 6:50 pm ET A Walmart supercenter in Rosemead, Calif., May 23. Photo: frederic j. brown/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images As politicians talk about how to reduce medical costs, Walmart and CVS are doing something about it. This month Walmart opened its first Health Center, in Dallas, Ga.… Read More: A Supercenter for Medicine – The Wall Street Journal »
The announcement on Wednesday that Johns Hopkins Medicine was starting a new center to study psychedelic drugs for mental disorders was the latest chapter in a decades-long push by health nonprofits and wealthy donors to shake up psychiatry from the outside, bypassing the usual channels. “Psychiatry is one of the most conservative specialties in medicine,”… Read More: The Man Who Put His Money Behind Psychedelic Medicine –… »
By HANS DUVEFELT, MD If my hypertensive patient develops orthostatism and falls and breaks her hip, I fully expect the orthopedic surgeon on call to treat her. I may kick myself that this happened but I’m not qualified to treat a broken hip. If my anticoagulated patient hits his head and suffers a subdural hematoma,… Read More: Psychiatrist: My Medicine Raised Our Patient’s Blood Sugar, Can You… »