Psychiatric Times November 5, 2020
Stuart Copans, MD , Mariam Rahmani, MD

There are 4 crucial failings in our current health care system, where the importance of relationships is ignored.

When a patient fails to improve with usual treatment, we begin a process of examining the causes of ineffectiveness: Is the medication dose too low? Is the patient’s body metabolizing the medication too quickly? Is the patient not following our directions? Is there a flaw in our understanding of the patient’s condition?

Health care in the United States is in poor health, its quality steadily declining since the 1960s. According to the World Economic Forum , in the 1950s the United States ranked first among the developed nations in the quality of health care. But now, despite enlisting renowned physicians,...

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