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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. ” The study also sheds light on the factors influencing patients’ decisions to continue, switch, or discontinue antidepressant treatment.

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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

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Or maybe you’d like to expand your influence with a broader audience. When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers.

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

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 2)

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Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. This distinction is important because the MD is basically a practitioner degree (which is appropriate for the practitioner) and not a research degree, which unfortunately has shaped the quality of healthcare in the 20 th century and beyond. This has resulted in both good and poor healthcare.

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The Challenge of Presenting Antidepressant Risks and Benefits

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I n the first essay of this three-part series, I noted that current estimates of the incidence of antidepressant withdrawal range from 1% to 50%; and that patients’ beliefs and hopes, and the availability of alternative treatments, influence how they hear explanations of antidepressant risk. So, no question, “pharma” has strong influence.

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The Dangers of Precision Medicine: Mental Health Is Not a Battlefield

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This connection between mental health and the use of battlefield and warfare metaphors has meaningful implications for how people perceive and cope with mental health conditions, influencing how care goals are set and treatment plans are designed. In this ‘garden’ model, mental health is seen as a collective, dynamic cultivation process.

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Undisclosed Financial Conflicts of Interest in the DSM-5: An Interview with Lisa Cosgrove and Brian Piper

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She is co-author, with Robert Whitaker, of Psychiatry under the Influence: Institutional Corruption, Social Injury, and Prescriptions for Reform. One is on conflicts of interest in medicine broadly, looking at influential information sources that are used by physicians and other healthcare providers. I have two lines of research.