Sunday, December 16, 2012

Medical Theater of the Damned

This site pops up annoying ads, but I just wanted to quote this editorial:

Psychiatry is failing those with personality disorders
If doctors sent patients with angina home with nothing but a prescription for a painkiller to control chest pain, they would be sued for malpractice. Sadly, that is a fitting analogy for what happens all too often to people with personality disorders.
Not "all too often".   Always.
It's not a bug.  It's a feature.
Pretending to treat mental illness has been standard procedure since the beginning of medicine.