BLACK GUY IN A WHITE COAT: Duke psychiatrist’s memoir speaks of African-American med student, medical professional

Tweedy is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center and a staff physician at the Durham VA Medical Center. Tweedy finished from Duke Medical School and Yale Law School. Much of his narrative is about his time as a Duke med …See all stories on this topic

Mental Health Awareness

To dispel common myths and stigma relating to mental health, World Mental Health Week was observed by the Department of Psychiatry at Federal government Stanley medical facility. Apart from handing hard copies of the typical mistaken beliefs on mental illness, a live group …See all stories on this topic

How Did We Enter This Opiate Mess? What Can Psychiatry Do to Help?This issue

of Psychiatric Record, guest modified by Norman S. Miller, MD, JD, PLLC, provides us with a major issue in medical practice. I bear in mind a time when treatment for pain in medicine was kept, but it seems that has now moved, with a mandate …See all stories on this subject

Addiction – Why Connection Might Be Part Of The Solution

In another book, Likes Executioner & Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Emeritus Teacher of Psychiatry at Stanford University Irvin D. Yalom, talks on occasion about the existential need to belong. The need to be connected and to be socially accepted.See all stories on this subject Suicide Prevention Concentrating on Screening, Fast-Acting Medications Efficient medication and therapies are available to return individuals to regular psychological function and minimize their risk of suicide,”said Mark Pollack, M.D., chairperson of the Rush University Medical Center Department of Psychiatry in Chicago.See all stories on this subject

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