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: Medicine
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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Dr. Krauthammer, Meet Dr. Dunn, HMO Vet
Charles Krauthammer’s wrote insightfully and was cited here on his comments on the realities of medical care and the myths that drive current plans.
However, there are more myths than even Dr. K is aware of.
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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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Krauthammer on Science
Charles Kruathammer was paralyzed by an injury as a medical student but finished and became a psychiatrist then a political writer and essayst.
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Complementary Medicine Sounds So Good
An opponent of complementary medicine (vitamins and supplement promoted beyond their proven effect) quits his academic position in protest of a 15 million dollar grant to his U,-public-health-professor-has-quit-after-his-uni-did-a-15-million-research-deal-with-swisse-2014-2 La Trobe for research from Swisse, a vit maker.
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Doper Alert
I have a perverse (can I say that) tendency to get dopers justifying their habit.
I always like the argument about alcohol being just as bad.
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Antidepressants–Canada is a Cold Place
Imagine if you had depression and it was cold and gloomy.
Seasonal affective disorder is real.
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Testosterone Threat
Well, I don’t worry too much about testosterone at my age–got plenty, but some worry about their T and get shots and such.
Danger Will, DANGER? Could be.
http://acsh.org/2014/01/even-bad-news-supplements-testosterone-treatment-linked-heart-attacks/
Problems at Parkland
In spite of problems at Parkland, one of their execs is now promoted to a top spot in Chicago.
http://watchdogblog.dallasnews.com/2014/01/former-parkland-leader-now-heads-chicago-public-health-system.html/?nclick_check=1
I would never be able to sort out what was going on at Parkland. Like most public systems it is opaque to a fault.
Ron Anderson was the big shot for a long time there and he certainly was full of himself.
Another Anti-Military Anti-War Agent Orange Panic Attack
Agent Orange caused a form of Acne for people with extreme exposures. Called Chlor Acne.
Nothing else, and it doesn’t cause cancer.
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