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You need to trust us –
Said the physicians,
We have your
best interests
at heart.

Patient responds
irrationally and incoherently:

You believe
you act ethically –
and so you reason
you do.
Mais excuse moi
Je pense,
donc je suis

Je préférerais
que tu réfléchisses
avec ta tête
plutôt qu’avec
ton cœu...


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From Substack, written by Bryan Shapiro MD. “The following is a rapid-fire, scientific rebuttal of the recent psychiatric times article “The Top 10 Misleading Claims About Antidepressants” by Roger McIntyr...


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What is striking about The Lost Art of Healing (1996) is that its author Bernard Lown (1921-2021), the renowned cardiologist who pioneered life-saving technological advances, makes clear that vital to heart health and recovery are human relationships that are being increasingly ignored in technology-worshipping medicine.

For Lown, two relationship are...


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A good soccer team coach makes all the members of the squad feel valued and that they have an important contribution to the team’s efforts. A less confident coach may have favorites and neglect other squad members. This will likely lead to disharmony in the squad and disaffected members may team up and be quite sabotaging to the aims of the coach. We think this is a great met...


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Iam a healthy person, but the mental health system made me sick. From the age of 30 to 36—a time when one is still young but is maturing and developing as an adult—I fell prey to a network that seemed unconcerned with talking through human issues, but prescribed medications my body didn’t need, invented labels for me and left my true ailments unaddressed. These doctors instil...


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