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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

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You may want to position your company as a thought leader in your network. Another example is partnering with an organization or association so your business can share high-value thought leadership content with its audience or network to further establish your authority and expertise in your market niche.

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We can’t improve health equity without diverse healthcare leaders

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healthcare system. Second, these groups are grossly underrepresented in healthcare leadership roles. Research by McKinsey and LeanIn.org showed that while three out of four entry-level healthcare positions go to women, they hold only a third of C-suite positions. Racial Two inequities plague the U.S.

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MindFreedom’s Shield Program: Working to Free People from Psychiatric Incarceration and Forced Treatment

Mad in America

They were with MindFreedom International’s (MFI) Shield program , describing itself as “a volunteer-driven mutual aid network through which we organize public campaigns to advocate for the rights of individuals who are being subjected to psychiatric intervention without consent.” the origin of the majority of Shield requests.

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You Have the Legal Right to Informed Consent

Mad in America

2024 Around-America Tour For almost two decades, my “True Crime” story has, sadly, been my unique contribution to challenging the powerful influence that the pharmaceutical industry has on the global healthcare system.

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

Mad in America

What’s more, the notion of fighting a health condition implies that success depends on individual effort and resources, which can marginalise those with limited access to healthcare resources, including the uninsured or underinsured. Describing drugs as a ‘weapons’ or ‘magic bullets’ encourages more aggressive treatment strategies.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

My interpretation would be that this is due not to placebo effects as such, but reflects that participants in a research trial should be; receiving appropriate attention in the form of supportive care from professionals, and any support network they may have. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later.

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

Schatzberg has served as a consultant to or received honoraria from Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Corcept Therapeutics, Forest Laboratories, Janssen, Eli Lilly, Merck, Mitsubishi Pharmaceuticals, Organon, ParkeDavis, Pfizer, Pharmacia–Upjohn, Sanofi, Scirex, SmithKline Beecham, Solvay, and Wyeth–Ayerst. They are not medical diseases.