MAID in America

It’s not about him. Or him. I opened twitter this morning because, despite years of analysis, I still hate myself and discovered a new acronym: MAID, aka Medical Assistance (or aid) In Dying. This isn’t a new subject, anyone who was Gen Y or older could mustily recall...

Contemporary Laws of Psychiatry

Consider these a necessary addendum to the Laws of Mount Misery by Samuel Shem: Beware the hyphenated last name. Bad therapy is far more damaging than no therapy. Alcoholism may have a genetic component, but that doesn’t make it inherently a disease. CBT is the ideal...