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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 3)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. In this blog, he addresses healthcare’s focus on back end treatment rather than front end treatment: treating the symptoms rather than the causes of the health condition. Unfortunately, healthcare belief and opinion rather than science seem to rule too much of healthcare today.

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Antidepressant Use Linked to Sexual Dysfunction, Why Aren’t Prescribers Discussing It?

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What’s concerning is that despite the significant impact of sexual dysfunction on patients’ quality of life, many did not discuss these issues with their healthcare providers. Stephenson and a team of researchers from various academic and pharmaceutical institutions, including the University of Virginia School of Medicine.

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Theodoric of Arizona: State-Sanctioned Pharma-Based Pseudo-Doctor

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The skit conveys some examples of state-of-the-art healthcare in England, circa 1303 A.D.: link] Bloodletting Was Once a State-Of-The-Art healing intervention A comment on YouTube says the SNL writers consulted with historians to make their skit as historically accurate as possible. This is the story of one such barber.

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It’s Health’s Illusions I Recall, I Really Don’t Know Health at All

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This article explains what assays are, how they entered healthcare and the consequences of failing to grasp the role they play. This is why consulting a doctor can feel like being nice to a policeman. Academics even boast that EBM shackles the pharmaceutical industry. will solve our healthcare problems.

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Escaping The Shackles of Psychiatry: What I’ve Seen and Survived, as Both Doctor and Patient

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We were not given any advice or support from healthcare services to help our family adjust to this enormous change in our circumstances. Before the emotional crisis labeled as depression in 1994, I had been about to embark on a postgraduate training scheme to become a consultant in emergency medicine.

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Faith Healing in India: An Ancient Way of Tending to Madness

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Before coming to Balaji, Sunita had consulted doctors and tried medicines. lakhs on healthcare,” she explained. Depression and anxiety were proof that you had a mind deep and dark enough to need pharmaceuticals to keep the demons at bay. So, no, I felt nothing until I realized the spirit was gone. “We spent Rs 3.5

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Decolonizing Psychiatry in Pakistan: A Reckoning with our Colonial Past and a Call for Reconstruction

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Yousaf Raza Illicit Ties with the Pharmaceutical Industry Prescribing more medications than are justified is the number-one crime of which a shamefully large number of psychiatrists are guilty. The answer is simple: it is also the standard that pharmaceutical companies hold us to. This is where the kickbacks come from.