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Inpatient vs. outpatient addiction treatment: Which is best?
Dr. Dinah Miller interviews two experts about criteria to consider when referring patients with substance use issues.
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How about the practice website?
Dr. Dinah Miller talks with two psychiatrists about the choices they made in setting up websites for their practices.
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Preventing suicide: What should clinicians do differently?
Dr. Igor Galynker urges clinicians to view factors such as patients’ sense of being entrapped as more sensitive measures of elevated risk.
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Universal depression screening for adolescents not without controversy
Some favor the American Academy of Pediatrics’ new guidelines; others wonder whether they are ambivalent.
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Experts explore issues, controversies around medical marijuana use
Dr. Dinah Miller looks for answers at the APA after a patient asked her about using the drug for chronic pain.
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Why isn’t smart gun technology on Parkland activists’ agenda?
Dr. Dinah Miller says she was pleased not to hear links between mental illness and gun ownership at the March For Our Lives rally on March 24.
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Trauma surgeon shares story of involuntary commitment, redemption
Dr. Dinah Miller says Dr. Michael Weinstein wants to help others break free from the stigma of silent shame and let them know that help is...
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Medication pricing: So this is how it works
Dr. Dinah Miller interviews the cofounder of GoodRx, a company that offers deep discounts on some medications.
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You paid how much for that medicine?
Dr. Dinah Miller shows that it pays for patients to shop around – at least for aripiprazole and modafinil.
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Massachusetts and the opioid crisis: Can involuntary holds work?
Dr. Dinah Miller asks whether involuntary holds on substance users are an effective way to tackle the epidemic.
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Physician health programs: ‘Diagnosing for dollars’?
Dr. Dinah Miller examines the value of PHPs for doctors facing burnout but warns against unfair practices sometimes found in the programs.
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#MeToo: Does it help?
Dr. Dinah Miller asks whether turning everyone into a sexual harassment victim detracts from the stories of women who have faced indisputable...
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Suicide: A surprisingly ambivalent topic
It’s National Suicide Prevention Week (Sept. 10-16, 2017) and few psychiatrists would disagree that suicide is a bad outcome, that it is often...
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What stops physicians from getting mental health care?
Dr. Dinah Miller wants state licensing boards to strike questions that differentiate between physical and mental disabilities.
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Psychological account of Robert Lowell’s life is magnificent
The latest book from Kay Redfield Jamison about Robert Lowell is an astounding account of an intensely brilliant and desperately ill poet.