Darren Wilson's Side of the Story

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Nor does a lot of the mental health care community, FWIW. As a close friend, a lead psychiatric researcher at NIH and staff psychiatrist at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda (he is also a doctor of internal medicine) often tells me "Modern medicine understands most things from the neck down and almost nothing from the neck up."

And if you believe that psychotropic drugs are not inappropriately and vastly over-prescribed in the United States, I strongly recommend some continuing education.

If psychotropics are vastly over prescribed its not due to the practices of board certified psychiatrists. It's due to the behavior of family practice docs who are afraid to say no to their drug seeking patients for fear of losing income in their practices. Particularly in the case of the bags fulla benzodiazipines they mindlessly prescribe to the addict and alcoholic patients they have failed to identify.

Now...regarding your very special psychiatrist friend (I'm sure all your friends are so extra-special) in my considerable experience the higher a doc goes in the ranks the way way less he/she is connected to the realities of mental health treatment.

And of course heath care in this country is fucked up, its run by the insurance industry and lawyers.