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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Healthcare is Broken: How to Fix It. ” —attributed to Mark Twain What are some of the sources of much of the poor quality and costly healthcare in the U.S. healthcare (17% of GDP and climbing). The Peterson Center of Healthcare reports that the U.S. healthcare bill is only exceeded by the approximately $3.8

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FDA Requires New Label Warning of Weight Loss Risk in Pediatric Patients Taking Extended-Release Stimulants for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Healthcare professionals should monitor weight and growth in young patients on these medications and consider alternative treatments if adverse effects occur. Clinical trials reveal higher plasma exposure and adverse effects in younger children, questioning the benefit-risk balance of these medications.

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2025 Staffing Trends in the Healthcare Industry

PsychStaffing Blog

As a leader in the healthcare recruitment industry , PsychStaffing is committed to supporting the highest quality mental health care in the communities we serve. Healthcare professionals are cautious of its use in direct patient care, but its definitely a trend in recruiting that has staying power.

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Risk Factors for ADHD

Psychiatric Times

Healthcare providers must conduct comprehensive developmental and birth histories when evaluating ADHD, asking detailed questions about family behavioral patterns rather than simply inquiring about formal diagnoses, as older generations may have undiagnosed ADHD manifesting through impulsive behaviors, job instability, or recurrent accidents.

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Why Facilities Work with Healthcare Staffing Agencies

PsychStaffing Blog

A medical staffing agency uses a large network of qualified candidates to fill open positions at healthcare facilities. But what is different about staffing agencies that specialize in healthcare? Gain Access to A Wider Network The pool of talent in the healthcare field evolves quickly faster than most internal teams can keep up with.

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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

The Problems with Industrial-Scale Psychedelic Therapy The current mainstream healthcare system operates on an industrial scale, treating human suffering as a technical problem to be fixed efficiently. When applied to psychedelic therapy, this approach threatens to strip these experiences of their transformative potential.

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The U.S. Disconnecting & Numbing Epidemic: The Culprit and Our Options

Mad in America

To make the megamachine work efficiently, people are dehumanized to be machine cogs, and Mumford describes the structure that makes it possible for authoritarian control over large populations be it in a labor machine, a military machine, a school machine, or a healthcare machine. There are of course different experiences of the megamachine.