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To: joseffy who wrote (654038)	5/6/2012 8:58:48 PM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584532

>> How many human beings has it destroyed? The psychiatry of yesteryear did destroy some people -- my mother-in-law received more than 50 shock treatments during the 50s. And she was crazy 'til the day she died. Who knows whether she was helped or harmed by them? But today, it is a different thing. Prozac is [was] a miracle drug of the highest order -- saving thousands of lives and vastly improving thousands of others. And even "shock treatments" can treat the most debilitating cases of depression with some success. I can tell you today that psychiatry today, at its best, does an excellent job of treating a wide range of serious illness -- particularly impressive are the treatment of depression and addiction. But at the same time, I know of a number of psychiatry/counseling operations that I think the world would be better off without. What is sad is that in most cases, these "bad" operations are a result of government health care gone awry. I know of one such operation that employs 50 part-time "counselors" and two psychiatrists, performs ONLY Medicaid services, and is a printing press for money (average weekly Medicaid check is $130K). Patients dutifully show up for the counseling session so they can walk away with a fresh script for the drug of choice -- also paid for by Medicaid, much of which ends up sold to street users at a 1000% markup. You get a lot of bad with the good.