Blew me away when Minhaj highlighted Monica Malowney’s and my study findings from 2015 (12 minutes into his show and then again in the middle of the 18th minute) in which we called 360 psychiatrists in 3 US cities, about how hard it is to access mental health care, even when people have supposedly “good” insurance. I’ve been making jokes myself about jewelry stores and McDonald’s ever since we published our study. PS If you haven’t seen Minhaj’s Homecoming King it is brilliant.
Hasan Minhaj on Accessing Mental Health Care
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Doctors Pay up or Else Can’t Work
My latest on Psychology Today is here about the coercion and extortion many doctors face if they want to be able to continue practicing medicine.
PHPs and the ADA
Co-author Nicholas Lawson does it again with a letter in the Annals of Internal Medicine decrying the American College of Physicians position statement on physician impairment, which strikes us as flouting the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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PBS Story on Lack of availability of Child Psychiatric Services
This PBS story is based on a paper just published that documents the geographical distribution of child psychiatrists in the US. Not surprisingly, they are located in urban areas with high levels of education and income. Colleagues and I had previously documented how difficult it is to obtain appointments with child psychiatrists around the country and this new story adds depth to the total picture about the lack of availability of these services. You can find the PBS story here.
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Doctors and Nurses Addicted to Opioids Are Often Barred from the Most Effective Treatment
Kudos to Emma Yasinski for this piece about depriving healthcare workers of the most effective treatment for opioid dependence.
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Do You Have An Addictive Personality? 3 Signs & When To Worry
Kudos to Jenni Gritters for this piece about addiction. One of the upshots is that if some drug, activity, or person causes you to jeopardize important elements of your life (such as employment or housing) then you just might be addicted.
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US Needs to Stop Torturing Children–Kudos to USA Today
Good for USA Today for this editorial–I was very surprised and gratified to see they’d quoted me about the lasting harmful effects of what our country is doing to children.
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Child detention is creating a mental health crisis
Truly astonishing that our government is actively taking steps to make conditions as horrid as possible for immigrants who are fleeing death in their home countries. For the record, I have seen numerous individuals who only fled their home countries after not one but multiple family members had been killed. I have also yet to see anyone seeking asylum who I thought was malingering. See this story:
https://www.axios.com/child-detention-mental-health-crisis-1fcbbb86-be78-451d-87a8-4a84ee894d01.html
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Insurance Companies Will Make Money and You and Your Family are the Ones Paying the Price
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Why MDs Who Need Psychiatric Care Often are Told to Go to Kansas (Spoiler Alert: It’s About Money!)
Why are physicians referred to Kansas for psychological assessments, even when excellent facilities exist in their home states? Read here from Psychology Today to find out!