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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Debate & Discussion > D.M H.R. 4269, 114th Congress - Or The End of Firearms in America 2015
 
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Dr Ozziemandius
Apr 28, 2011

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NathanScottPhillips posted:

Doctors in America are heavily financially incentivized to prescribe drugs

Still one of the biggest bullshit lies ever pushed. Been a practicing physician for over a decade; still waiting on my big pharma shill bucks. :rant: Hell, we don't even get lovely pens and post-it notes anymore.

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Dr Ozziemandius
Apr 28, 2011

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MariusLecter posted:

But this one doctor has a big collage of pens and stuff. How do explain that huh? With your fancy degree you piece of poo poo

Curses, foiled again! How did they find our weakness for chintzy little pens with a half inch of ink in them and cheap solar calculators! I can't get enough of them, dammit! I'd sell them my mother's kidneys for another one of those really neat Levitra pens that flipped out in a suggestive manner.
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Dr Ozziemandius
Apr 28, 2011

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SedanChair posted:

This would obviously be better addressed in its own thread, but since I've got you here, do you think there is anything amiss in the way that mental illness is diagnosed and psychoactive medications prescribed? As someone who is just a layman but sees lots of kids pick up a range of seemingly contradictory diagnoses, it seems like psychiatry has a lot less rigor than other branches of medicine.
It is something for it's own thread; it's just that the "all doctors are in the pocket of big pharma" thing is a pet peeve. It's a multifactoral problem, really. Psychiatric issues are very, very difficult to pigeonhole into the nice, neat little checkboxes that modern insurance wants for coding and billing purposes, coupled with the fact that insurance also tries very hard to ignore the reality that mental illness is, in fact, a form of illness. Mental health issues are very hard to successfully diagnose and treat, and real treatment depends on lifelong support with both medical and social factors involved. Which is super expensive, and therefore not gonna get approved very often.


stealie72 posted:

Also a layman and also curious. I'm not sure if it's a lack of rigor, per se, or if it's that our understanding of mental health today is where our understanding of physical health was 100-150 years ago. It also seems like the more we discover about the brain, the more it looks like we're all slaves to our electrical impulses.

Especially interesting is how effective electroshock therapy can be. :can:

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