{"id":4536,"date":"2010-12-07T20:02:16","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T01:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2010-12-07T20:06:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T01:06:55","slug":"poor-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/07\/poor-show\/","title":{"rendered":"poor show…"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m stuck on the most recent Nemeroff revelation – the ghost-written Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders<\/font><\/strong>. I thought I was done, but it came in the mail today, my 31¢ Amazon purchase. As Carlat’s Blog<\/strong><\/a> reported, it’s weighted towards SmithKline Beecham’s SSRI, Paxil. But that’s old news. Frankly, the book itself is amazingly simplistic. Were I a Primary Care Physician receiving it, I would feel insulted, even if it were handed out for free. It would be hard to believe that the book was written by a practicing physician. With each disorder, there’s a flow chart to follow for treatment. Problem is, they’re all the same. Make a diagnosis. Start a treatment. Re-evaluate in the future. Keep treating or change treatments. That might be good advice for a medical student as he\/she starts seeing patients for the first time. But it’s hardly useful for a Primary Care Physician trying to learn something useful in treating the sea of patients complaining of psychiatric symptoms.<\/div>\n

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Pretty similar. Very simplistic. Plenty monotonous. This book is written in a format one might use for an untrained military corpsman with no access to medical care – not to a physician who has presumably made it through medical school. I stand by my sarcastic book cover above. This is a poor showing, no matter who wrote it…<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m stuck on the most recent Nemeroff revelation – the ghost-written Recognition and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. I thought I was done, but it came in the mail today, my 31¢ Amazon purchase. As Carlat’s Blog reported, it’s weighted towards SmithKline Beecham’s SSRI, Paxil. But that’s old news. Frankly, the book itself is amazingly simplistic. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}