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Slate book review: Is Psychiatry Dishonest? And if so, is it a noble lie?

A.B.

A.B.

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alex3619 said:
This is the point of my book, and it will take me years to flesh them all out. How to achieve these goals might well be beyong me though .. this is big. What I want to start is a debate on how to do these things, and I do not mean amongst ME patients. Psychiatrists and psychologists, other doctors and scientists, who recognize the problems need to get involved ... this is already happening, but it needs much more. All these should be considered preliminary ideas only, though number 3 was scheduled to be a blog this month until I had to take a 3 month break.
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If you can come up with a plausible system where financial rewards are tied to *curing* patients then you have essentially the answer to most of these problems.
 
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A.B. said:
If you can come up with a plausible system where financial rewards are tied to *curing* patients then you have essentially the answer to most of these problems.
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As an eventual solution that might be workable, but as an interim solution, with medical science still trying to figure out what is going on, I think its unworkable. In any case thats one of the points of evidence based medicine - to promote what is acceptable and shown to work, and criticize what doesn't work. However EBM has major problems that are not being fixed currently.
 
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