Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
by pc86 on Monday January 18, 2021 @09:14PM
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In medicine "quality care" is a binary attribute. Something either meets the quality threshold or it doesn't. And as the author found out, physicians do not spend their time researching medications. It's not their job, they're not trained in it, and most of them wouldn't be particularly good at it.
So I'm not sure why you would expect a psychiatrist to do something she's not trained to do to (maybe) increase an already acceptable metric some arbitrarily small amount higher.
Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
by wolco5 on Monday January 18, 2021 @08:15PM
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I've seen this happen and the entire process of adding new drugs and waiting a week or more between visits seems cruel.
Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea
by cestith on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @10:19AM
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Lots of psychoactive medications take days or weeks to build up in the body to the point of effectiveness. They're finding out neat things about esketamine and psilocybin, but in general a large enough dose of a mood-altering drug to take immediate effect is a bad or at least very risky thing.
Edit to add: if you think a practitioner putting their own revenue/profits above providing quality care, then something's wrong with you.