Category Archives: Miscellaneous
We Ought to Legalize ALL Drugs and Authorize/Mandate Treatment for Abusers
Not sure if I posted this when it came out, but throwing folks in jail for drug use ITSELF ought to be a crime. They need and deserve our help and treatment.
Physician Health Program Outcome Data Should Be Viewed with Caution–Letter in the Judges’ Journal by Nicholas Lawson and myself
Georgetown law student Nicholas Lawson and I published Lawson Boyd Judges Journal Letter on PHP Outcomes 2018 in the Judges’ Journal last month. We make the case in this letter that we have previously made about how PHP outcome data need … Continue reading
Important New Paper–Systematic Abuse and Misuse of Psychiatry in Physicians’ Health Programs Discussed in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
Physicians Heath Programs (PHPs) are part of the medical regulatory-therapeutic complex intended to protect the public from impaired physicians. Initially, they were supposed to provide a benevolent means to treat physicians with substance use disorders and return them to the … Continue reading
Yet Again . . .
Another mass murder in the only country where this is a routine occurrence. Why does it continue to happen? It is not because the US has more mentally ill individuals than other countries. It is because we have more guns. … Continue reading
Doctors Who Use Weed Off-Duty Are Getting Their Licenses Suspended Even in states where cannabis is legal
Awesome piece at Vice news by Ankita Rao here. It is appalling that any entity would refer a physician to a state physician health program for an evaluation–that can cost $6000, and that’s before physicians are told to stay for 30 … Continue reading
Survey Finds Widespread ‘Moral Distress’ Among Veterinarians
Lisa Moses, Monica Malowney and I published this study last Monday. It was covered by the Globe and by WBUR and NPR.
Doctor Loses Medical License For Legally Treating Her Menstrual Cramps With Cannabis
See the story is reported by Tobias Coughlin-Bogue, and you can find it here.
How broad are state physician health program descriptions of physician impairment?
My latest piece with co-author and Georgetown law student Nick Lawson is here. All credit for this piece is due to Nick who conceived of the idea and ran with it. Physician health programs (PHPs) are unknown to most physicians … Continue reading
Immigrants cost the health care system less than US-born Americans: Study
ABC news story is here: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/immigrants-cost-healthcare-system-us-born-americans-study/story?id=57128979
Are Immigrants Health Care ‘Moochers’? On The Contrary, Boston Researchers Say
See the whole piece here: http://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2018/08/08/immigrants-health-care-cost