Managed Care and Medical Injury: Let’s Not Throw Out the Baby with the Backlash

Managed care and medical injury: let's not throw out the baby with the backlash.

Do Not Throw Out the Baby

Retrograde amnesia for autobiographical information is the most critical adverse effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Much, if not most, modern research demonstrating long-term autobiographical amnesia after ECT has used either the Columbia University Autobiographical Memory Interview (CUAMI) or the short form of this scale (CUAMI-SF). Semkovska and McLoughlin claimed that studies using t...

Throw out the bathwater; keep the baby.

Health Programs paints a different picture. In a retrospective case control study, Paris and Canavan compared 32 anesthesiologists with 36 physician controls, and after an average follow-up of 7.5 yr, there was no difference in the relapse rates between these 2 groups. Likewise, the outcomes of residents did not differ from attending physicians. A similar report from Pelton involving 255 physic...

Understanding the managed care backlash.

This paper examines the depth and breadth of the public backlash against managed care and the reasons for it. We conclude that the backlash is real and influenced by at least two principal factors: (1) A significant proportion of Americans report problems with managed care plans; and (2) the public perceives threatening and dramatic events in managed care that have been experienced by just a fe...

Postpsychiatry: how to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Postpsychiatry is of comparatively recent origin. The term 'postpsychiatry' was coined by Campbell, in 1996 (Campbell 1996). It does not indicate psychiatry that comes after psychiatry. The term itself comes from postmodernism. The same as modern-day psychiatry is psychiatry of modern times, postpsychiatry is supposed to be psychiatry of the postmodern era. to name but a few, propagate the same...