DJ Jaffe is an advocate for mo’ better outpatient community psych programs.
Psych programs are fertile ground for some junk science concepts for sure.
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Category: Health
NY Psych Industry Pushing Something that's Crazy
I won’t go into too long a lecture about the stupidity of this proposal to close the NY State Psych Hospitals,
but someone in the psych industry needs to have his head examined.
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Junk Numbers on Unemployment and the Uninsured
Politics can produce junkscience economics/social sciences numbers that confuse public health policy and prevent proper solutions.
Gotta have a good diagnosis to develop a good treatment.
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Shift Work
Many years ago when all night TV started, 1982, I watched a report that every night shift took a day off my life.
I was watching the report at 3 AM. I was alerted. I stopped working nights 2 years ago at age 65. Kinda like retiring.
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Wanna understand Obamacare?
This extraordinary essay by a very smart guy outlines the whole deal.
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3rd World Diseases
I pay a little attention to 3rd world diseases, that are often mistakenly just called tropical diseases. I even see some of those disease occasionally or get public health reports of their presence in the US.
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Let's see, how can we Increase Women's Visits to Doctors?
There was apparently a desperate situation here.
Women’s clinics were shut down. Women need to see the doctor, a lot.
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Bird Flu Update from China
More on the new Bird Flu–a chance for public health people to get some face and mic time.
Let’s see, how many years now have we been scared about Bird Flu? This time it’s really scary?
http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/chinese-scientists-sound-warning-over-new-bird-flu/article/368952
Greene Answers a Question on Scary Formaldehyde
I have talked Bob Greene, industrial chemist and compliance man into writing for JunkScience.
It was a good idea.
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Heroin ODs in Pittsburgh
The rash of Heroin OD deaths in Alleghany County? In my experience potency of the street product is often the cause.
Or new, what we call naive users.
http://www.post-gazette.com/local/region/2014/01/26/Allegheny-County-medical-examiner-calls-rash-of-apparent-overdose-deaths-a-major-public-health-crisis/stories/201401260193
Corona Viruses Are Virulent, New One from the Middle East
The SARS epidemic of 2003 was caused by a corona virus, but it was not the Bird Flu. One of our smart readers caught my mistake. I was confused by my recollection of the high mortality of bird flu, like corona virus infections.
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Single Payor Healthcare Mediocrity and Rationing in the UK
John Goodman’s tale of things going south in the UK.
I ran an HMO one time in my life–CEO and Medical Director.
In a managed single source healthcare system you can always control costs by limiting access, appointments available, phone lines–use your imagination.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=24012&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPD