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Monday, March 31, 2014

Thank You, Pete Earley

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Lots of good stuff on Pete Earley's blog lately.  He has a blog post up today with a video of hours of Congressional testimony on the...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Can You Make Docs Be Nice?

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Today's post, called Legislating Kindness , can be found on our Clinical Psychiatry News column.   Please surf over there for the po...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

In Their Shoes

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There was an op-ed in the New York Times recently by the Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections about the 23 hours ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

How Does That Make You Feel?

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It's the quintessential shrink question.  And what if you do if you don't know how something makes you feel? Is it really healthy...
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Pardon the Interruption

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I've mentioned it before, but Clink and I are working on a new book.  Today, it the book-to-be is titled is "Committed: The Batt...
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Saturday, February 22, 2014

Should Insight (or "Anosognosia") be Considered in Involuntary Outpatient Treatment Orders?

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Today's post can be found over on Clinical Psychiatry News where I address a NAMI member's concern's about anosognosia and ...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

TED talks

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In case you're interested, I hate to exercise.  I mean I really hate it.  I do it anyway, in what's hopefully not a misguided beli...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Are Psychiatrists Evil?

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  I want to point you to a psychiatry blog I happened upon not long ago, In White Ink, written by psychiatrist Dr. Maria Yang.  There was...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, Lecture on Assisted Outpatient Treatment as Crisis-Driven Law

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Friday, February 07, 2014

Outpatient Civil Commitment: Coming to Maryland Soon?

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Today's blog post is over on Clinical Psychiatry News .  See Dinah's article summarizing a lecture on outpatient commitment, gun...
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Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Should it be a Crime for a Therapist to Have Sex with a Patient?

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Currently, there is a bill before our state legislature  [ video testimony ] that would make it a crime for a therapist to have sexual co...
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Saturday, February 01, 2014

In the Public Interest

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When does some public good override psychiatric confidentiality? Dinah's post yesterday outlined the recent issue in the Navy's p...
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Should Medical Records be Released to the Public Online?

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With the adoption of electronic medical records and the advent of CRISP , Maryland's centralized collection of health informat...
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Monday, January 27, 2014

The doctor will see you NOW!

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Here in Maryland, we have the best laws.  And Delegate Robert Costa, a Republican from Anne Arundel County (District 33B), has another Bi...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Insurance (or Not), Flotation Tanks, and Involuntary Committment.

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This is an around-the-web post. First, my stuff: Over on Clinical Psychiatry News, I have article up about the survey on "Who ar...
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