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A Year With 988: What Worked? What Challenges Lie Ahead?

The Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s 988 hotline marked its one-year milestone this month. Mental health experts say the three-digit number made help more accessible than before.

Are Lives Lost by Cognitively Impaired/Drug-Abusing Physicians? Who Reports Them?

Oversight of cognitively impaired or drug-abusing physicians/healthcare workers is a serious, delicate matter.

Alzheimer’s Long Road

Alzheimer’s is only one dementia, and there are many others, currently about ten types. The problem is in identifying the individual’s precise dementia and treating it appropriately.

Psychiatry Has an Identity Crisis, and It’s a Problem for Patients

A subspecialty of medicine, psychiatry is caught in a scientific and philosophical wilderness and is attempting to find its way.