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Lessons of Rebecca Riley
I’ve been following the Rebecca Riley case in Massachusetts, although not as closely as I would like to, since I find the details so incredibly disturbing. For those of you who aren’t familiar with...
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Are Your Thoughts Still Racing, Jiefang?
A recent Vanity Fair article described the trend by American pharmaceutical companies to conduct more clinical trials outside of the United States and Western Europe. The writer and bioethicist Carl...
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Psychiatry, Homeostasis, and Regression to the Mean
Are atypical antipsychotics overprescibed? This question was raised in a recent article on the Al Jazeera English website, and has been debated back and forth for quite some time on various blogs,...
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(Mis)informed Consent
Over the years, the practice of medicine has become less of an art, and more a process of crossing T’s and dotting I’s. “Treating the chart” has become, in many ways, more important than treating the...
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“Trainwrecks”
One of the highlights of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) Annual Meeting is the Exhibit Hall. Here, under bright lights and fancy multimedia displays, sponsors get to show off their new...
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