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Blog Entries by Marvin Ross from 06/2012

Doctors Need to Cure Themselves of Apathy When It Comes to Mental Health

| Posted 06.03.2012 | Canada
Read More: Mental Illness, Schizophrenia Outcomes, Falling Thorugh the Cracks, Toronto Star, Mental Health, Wellness, Mental Health Week, Canada News

All physicians are supposed to treat their patients based on the best evidence of what is scientifically proven to work. But when it comes to mental health, a lot of them are ignoring patients, and not giving them the care they require.

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Antipsychotics Aren't the Anti-Hero

| Posted 06.12.2012 | Canada
Read More: Robert Whitaker, Dr. E Fuller Torrey, Treatment of Mental Illness, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Schizophrenia Medication, Antipsychotic Drugs, Schizophrenia, Canada News

In Robert Whitaker's book, The Anatomy of an Epidemic, his main conclusion is that antipsychotic medications are bad. He argues that the outcomes for schizophrenia recovery rates have worsened with the introduction of medication. But a very recent study done by the prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, just concluded that the benefit of these drugs has been proven.

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Do Schizophrenics Deserve Organ Transplants? Some Docs Say No

| Posted 06.26.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Medical Care Schizophrenia, Transplants, Simon McCarty-Jones, Mental Illness, Medical Discrimination, Schizophrenic Organ Transplant, Schizophrenia, Canada Politics News

The medical system's treatment of schizophrenic patients is akin to how our society treats people who are afflicted with the most serious of mental illnesses. Something must be done for those with schizophrenia so that they do not continue to die 15-20 years before everyone else as is the case now because they do not get the same level of medical care that the rest of us enjoy.

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