None of those things are “fine”. They just shouldn’t result in penalties for individual doctors who were following established best practices.
The problem should be addressed at institutional and structural levels. Drug companies shouldn’t be allowed to throw away 30 studies with inconclusive results and get approved based only on the two with positive results. Drugs that work by inducing a structural change like SSRIs shouldn’t be approved for indefinite use, and if that evidence is found after their initial approval, the approval should be amended. Drug companies should never have been allowed to advertise that depression is a “chemical imbalance in the brain” which is corrected by their drugs when there was never evidence for that beyond the drugs having an effect.
Sure, ok, yeah, we need systemic change at a fundamental level, yep, totally agreed.
Anyway, do any psychiatrists have any morals?
Why do we even have medical ethicists when basically the entire system is fundamentally broken, the extent and details of this are well known to experts, but they just content themselves with ‘doing their best’, and require layman to investigate how full of shit all of this is?
How can you work in this field and sleep soundly at night at the same time?
Sorry, right, like, I’m an anarchist, the ‘point’ of a system is what it actually does, not what it claims to do or aspires to do.
Road to hell, good intentions, all that.
This is all provably ludicrous, and imo, the field should be on fire, revolting in droves at how fucked up this situation is and how they won’t participate in a massively harmful and morally dubious system.
Otherwise, I guess the Hippocratic Oath isn’t a thing for psychiatrists, this is just their day job.
None of those things are “fine”. They just shouldn’t result in penalties for individual doctors who were following established best practices.
The problem should be addressed at institutional and structural levels. Drug companies shouldn’t be allowed to throw away 30 studies with inconclusive results and get approved based only on the two with positive results. Drugs that work by inducing a structural change like SSRIs shouldn’t be approved for indefinite use, and if that evidence is found after their initial approval, the approval should be amended. Drug companies should never have been allowed to advertise that depression is a “chemical imbalance in the brain” which is corrected by their drugs when there was never evidence for that beyond the drugs having an effect.
Sure, ok, yeah, we need systemic change at a fundamental level, yep, totally agreed.
Anyway, do any psychiatrists have any morals?
Why do we even have medical ethicists when basically the entire system is fundamentally broken, the extent and details of this are well known to experts, but they just content themselves with ‘doing their best’, and require layman to investigate how full of shit all of this is?
How can you work in this field and sleep soundly at night at the same time?
Sorry, right, like, I’m an anarchist, the ‘point’ of a system is what it actually does, not what it claims to do or aspires to do.
Road to hell, good intentions, all that.
This is all provably ludicrous, and imo, the field should be on fire, revolting in droves at how fucked up this situation is and how they won’t participate in a massively harmful and morally dubious system.
Otherwise, I guess the Hippocratic Oath isn’t a thing for psychiatrists, this is just their day job.