Author Archives: jwboyd
How we Think about Stories of Illness, How we Describe it, and Whose Description “Counts”
Impact of State Medical Licensure Exemptions and Telehealth Registries on College Students’ Access to Psychiatric Care
Super proud that Rachel Conrad, colleagues and I just published this piece in the APA journal Psychiatric Services. You can find it here: https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ps.20240225 The APA just issued this “Psychiatric News Alert” about our piece: Many psychiatrists in states with … Continue reading
The Mental Health Struggles of Veterinary Technicians
The emotional struggles veterinary technicians face are often hidden https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/almost-addicted/202501/the-mental-health-struggles-of-veterinary-technicians
STAT News: Medical schools need to offer students alternatives to state physician health programs
AI: Physician Health Programs (PHPs) Frequently Refer MDs for Residential Treatment Placements even though those MDs don’t Warrant Residential Level of Care per American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Criteria
Check out my AI search query and AI’s response below. Some of the points ChatGPT makes are damning of PHPs, to put it mildly. AI Query: Why do physician health programs send doctors to residential treatment program when those physicians … Continue reading
Can’t Make This Up! Some Physicians Are Being Forced to Pass Polygraph Tests if They Want to Continue Working
Despite polygraphs being inadmissible in courts and being considered either full on junk science or just north of that mark, the federation of state physician health programs (FSPHP) and its member state physician health programs (PHPs) are routinely sending physicians … Continue reading
The Delicate Path of Treating Addiction Among Doctors
Excellent article on Physician Health Programs here by Frieda Klotz. One problem of PHPs is that they operate with little oversight and almost no ways of meaningfully appealing they’re recommendations. Additionally, they have bidirectional conflicts of interest with the evaluation/treatment … Continue reading
KevinMD Podcast on the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education
https://www.kevinmd.com/2024/06/ai-ethics-in-medical-education-podcast.html
Book Review of Carl Elliott’s new book: The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No
I just published a review of Carl Elliott’s latest book here in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Here are my concluding chapters from the review: Elliott notes that many whistleblowers start out as idealists. Indeed, that idealism is at … Continue reading