I was
recently catching up on a backlog of reading. I get a lot of journals and
magazines in the mail, and when things are busy, I toss them in a pile on a
corner of my desk. Recently, the pile was so high it threatened to topple over
onto my little dog, Cassie. (Cassie is sometimes in the office with me, and
when she is, she sits atop a... Read more
I'm writing
after seeing my doctor and just being tired of the lack of quality I'm seeing ...
and what I've seen when I've been to other doctors as well.
A few
years ago, the prestigious Institute of Medicine
(IOM) created quite a stir when it released something called the Quality Chasm Report which
indicated a huge gap between... Read more
A few
weeks ago, the health care liaison from Senator Dick Durbin's office called me
indicating they were having a hard time making headway with a bill called "The MOTHER's
Act." It had been introduced in 2007 on Mother's Day, in honor of a woman named
Melanie Blocker-Stokes, to create more funding for reach on postpartum
depression (PPD) and... Read more
Whenever
two or more psychiatrists are gathered together...they complain about treatment adherence. What
is adherence? It's the extent to which consumers stay on a treatment plan or
take a medication routinely. It seems I cannot be in a meeting of psychiatrists,
psychologists, psychiatric nurses or pharmaceutical company representatives... Read more
Over the years that I've served as CEO
of DBSA, many of you have expressed your frustration and concern with the way
consumers of mental health services are portrayed in the media. Why are we
always the axe murderers and thugs? What about the millions of us who do good things in the world?
Well, the Substance Abuse and Mental
Health... Read more
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