The Frontier Psychiatrists

I’ve been obsessed with the Peloponnesian War as a historical event for 20 years now. I wrote an article about it recently, and also recorded a song about it many years back.Enjoy the listen!If you like the music, there is more of it on Spotify…The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or pai

This podcast was edited on a plane ride to Japan, and the intro was recorded in a bathroom while my kids slept off the jet lag. It’s still good. I recently went down with Ben Greenzweig, the Executive Director of the non-profit Living Water Brain Treatment Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We are—right now—providing TMS treatment and, soon to be more, in a local communi

My readers and listeners know that this project, The Frontier Psychiatrists, is daily. Sometimes, I don't get the thing done till the end of the day. Today is one of those days. I was running on empty when it came to narrative this morning, so I decided to try to make a podcast. One of the tricky things about these more experimental days is that I don't know if the story is going t

Today, The Frontier Psychatrists welcomes back my friend Ben Spielberg. He's been a reader for a long time and has contributed to the newsletter in the past. It was on Clinical Trial design, a perennial favorite around these parts.With only light edits, what follows is his work, narrated by me, for the Audio Version.I would invite you to the live class today on working as an out-of

The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily-enough health-themed publication. But sometimes, I just want to make a podcast. Today is one such day.Enjoy!The Frontier Psychiatrists is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acc

Today is a day of mourning. In broad daylight, in the city I love, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare’s insurance subsidiary, was murdered. According to CNN:Brian Thompson was walking toward the New York Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, dressed in a suit and tie, to attend UnitedHealthcare’s annual investor conference being held in the ballroom.A gunman, who investig

Synopsis:Bobby, alone on the side of the road driving back to Manhattan after loading a bear carcass into his Cybertruck, reveals his intention to play the villain. He then pretends to console Donald, the first victim of this villainy. After Donald is led off toward the White House, Bobby greets Elon, who tells him that someone is very ill from an infectious disease. Bobby, once ag

The path from xanomeline to the brand name treatment named Cobenfy was a long one. Cobenfy is FDA-approved for the treatment of Schizophrenia. Here is the literal label:COBENFY is a combination of xanomeline, a muscarinic agonist, and trospium chloride, a muscarinic antagonist, indicated for the treatment of schizophrenia in adults.To people who haven't yet read my book Inessential

I was at AACAP and sat down with Dr. Sood, a colleague, and we had a chat about investing, goal setting, venture scaleable businesses, and private equity, and we had some fun at the expense of Red Lobster in the process. I hope my colleagues enjoy the listen!Prior articles on the topic include What If We Didn’t Blow The Horn, Private Equity Sucks at Running Business of Medicine,

This Podcast is a recording of departmental grand rounds presented at the Medical University of South Alabama pre-pandemic on burnout. It references a long legal back and forth I’d put up with. That has led to, last year, our legal team filing a defamation lawsuit and, this week, a request for an injunction. It’s more burnout than when I did the talk. I hope it’s still a sour