Mental health The DO Book Club: ‘Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses’ In her memoir, Sarah Fay questions the validity of the DSM and addresses several problems with how mental illness is commonly addressed in the U.S. Feb. 1, 2023WednesdayFebruary 2023 issue The DO Book Club Joan Naidorf, DO Joan Naidorf, DO, is an emergency physician, speaker, and author from Alexandria, Virginia. Contact Dr. Naidorf
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All the criticisms of DSM and psychiatry are valid, though Fay admits she was also dishonest, concelaing pertinent facts of her life that would have significantly changed or altered treatment. There is essentially zero collaboration in medicien with other speicalties. Like the pseudo-private nature of psychiatric illness itself, in 35 years of practice I have never received a consult or anything close to it from any psychiatrist on any patient. Even the referral process like the pharmaceurtical comoanies help develop the the DSM… the referral to Behavioral Health is like a sending someone into a blackhole. When they return, all you can do is ask them, “So what happened”…and you see new meds in their chart… Feb. 23, 2023, at 5:03 pm Reply