About
Hi! I’m a clinical psychiatrist working in the dungeons of the ivory tower of academia. I see patients in the hospital and in outpatient clinics, supervise residents, and teach medical students. When I get some spare time, I try to keep up-to-date with all the developments in the field. Like any medical or technical field, the rate of new developments is accelerating far beyond what anyone can readily keep up with. Every week my mailbox is filled with a seemingly endless supply of journals, magazines, drug company marketing material, and the like.
The internet provides a great way to sort and access some of this information, but I have to spend my precious time trying to find it and decide if it is useful to me in my very real practice with very real patients. I have been wishing that there was one place that could pull together useful information on topics with direct relevance to everyday clinical psychiatric practice. I’ve decided that I would try to put such a site together, and psychstuff was born.
Financial Disclosure
This website, the companion blog, and the Twitter account, are all supported by me and me alone. I accept no outside sources of income for this site. I have no affiliations with any pharmaceutical company, CME entity, lobbying group, or other organization apart from my employer, a state-funded medical school. Since I do this on my own time and with my own resources, I don’t even consider them an influence.
I used to do a few talks for Pfizer, and attended/got paid for a couple of regional “opinion groups.” That ended several years ago when I decided I didn’t like the fact that I was being paid to be a spokesmodel. So this site is Pharma-free, make of that what you will. As to my opinion about doing such work, please see my WWOD? page.
