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Mashup Score: 3Congressional Spending Acts Mitigate Medicare Pay Cut, Fund Mental Health Priorities - 5 hour(s) ago
The 2024 federal budget includes vital funding for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Labor, and other federal agencies overseeing and implementing mental health and sub…
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Mashup Score: 4
Involvement of psychiatrists on an inpatient treatment team was crucial to identifying a safe discharge plan for a patient with opioid use disorder (OUD) with a peripherally inserted central cathet…
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Mashup Score: 0Microsoft AI Expert: APA, MH Professionals Must Help Guide Future of AI and Mental Health - 1 day(s) ago
The future of artificial intelligence and its impact on psychiatry was prominent among the topics discussed at APA’s Board of Trustees meeting in March.
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Mashup Score: 1GAP Forest Aims to Offset Carbon Emissions - 1 day(s) ago
Owners of forestland have donated the carbon that their trees capture each year to the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. The group is also planting thousands of new trees to continue fightin…
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Mashup Score: 13A Call to Action: Test Our Patients for Hepatitis C - 2 day(s) ago
Psychiatrists need to be knowledgeable about hepatitis C, as it is associated with various psychiatric and neuropsychiatric symptoms, and patients are at increased risk for this infection.
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Mashup Score: 4White House Calls for Stakeholder Action on Overdose Deaths - 2 day(s) ago
The Biden administration has challenged organizations and businesses of all sizes to help keep their employees, customers, and communities safe with improved access to opioid overdose reversal medi…
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Mashup Score: 13
Eleven years after I began working the most rewarding job I could imagine, it is time for me to say goodbye as CEO and medical director of APA. It has been a remarkable journey, made memorable by challenges, opportunities, surprises, and a few setbacks, but also by many achievements; at every point I have been sustained by the support and expertise of the extraordinary APA leadership—Board and Assembly members; presidents, past and present; component members; and the best administration a CEO could ask
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Mashup Score: 5Countertransference: A Lost Art - 3 day(s) ago
Countertransference is defined as a therapist’s internal and external reactions to a client that are influenced by the therapist’s personal vulnerabilities and unresolved conflicts. While transference and countertransference are elements of psychiatrists’ everyday work, there are moments when the definition and managem ent of transference can be especially useful to review. I recently encountered a patient who stirred up some pretty strong negative emotions, including anger, frustration, disappointment,
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Mashup Score: 15
A psychiatrist working in a correctional institution confronts a dilemma: to treat or not to treat a psychotic patient on death row. The patient had previously been declared incompetent to be executed due to severe mental illness, but the psychosis has deteriorated such that the psychiatrist now believes it is unethical not to treat the individual to relieve his suffering. The patient is so markedly paranoid and delusional that he has stopped eating for fear of being poisoned and wears himself out by
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Mashup Score: 0Copyright Infringement: Where’s the Risk? - 3 day(s) ago
Before you use an image or other content on your website, social media feed, or elsewhere, be sure to check if it is copyrighted, and if so, get written permission from the owner to use it.
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