Review: "New Approach Found to Ease Schizophrenia" – The New York Times
I found the article by Benedict Carey posted by The New York Times on Facebook. The thumbnail states "a landmark study found that a bigger emphasis on one-one-on talk therapy made greater strides in patient recovery than the usual drug-focused treatments." I'm glad there are researchers out there who love research, statistics, double-blind tests, and placebos. I'm more of a clinician (aka using the scientific method on individualized mini-experiments) than a researcher (aka u
Q: Then who's going to pay for medicines?
"The costs of medications are so high. Who's going to pay for people to get their meds?" This question was posed to me by someone who currently works as a nurse in a psychiatric ER. One of the reasons medication and medical device costs are so high is because Big Pharma and Big Devices drive up the prices. We know from looking at other countries that the very same medications and technologies have huge markups here comparatively. Why is that? It's partly because we are requir