Julia Frank, MD
Julia Frank is a psychiatrist.
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On September 17, 2013, I joined the growing ranks of physicians who have gotten a message they hoped never to receive: “There has been a mass shooting in the area. Prepare to receive casualties.” That morning, a gunman was indiscriminately…
On September 17, 2013, I joined the growing ranks of physicians who have gotten a message they hoped never to receive: “There has been a mass shooting in the area. Prepare to receive casualties.”
That morning, a gunman was indiscriminately mowing down people at the US Navy Yard. Within an hour my hospital had geared up to provide both medical and supportive care, answer calls from those seeking to know the …
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Unregulated gun access and its drain on medical resources
Conditions and diseases
“It don’t matter how many men you shot in Memphis,” the saying goes, “if your name is Sierra or Sequoia, you can’t sing the blues”. In a sense, this adage reworks an older, more bitter joke from the civil rights…
“It don’t matter how many men you shot in Memphis,” the saying goes, “if your name is Sierra or Sequoia, you can’t sing the blues”. In a sense, this adage reworks an older, more bitter joke from the civil rights era, the one that begins “some of my best friends are …” and ends with “but you wouldn’t want your sister to marry one.” Both statements embody stigma, the social effects …
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The stigma experienced by patients with psychiatric disorders
Drugs and prescribing
“All psychiatrists do is push drugs!” I have heard this repeatedly, from students, wary patients, even family members who don’t pick up on a carefully worded hint that they just might benefit from getting help. For some reason, no one…
“All psychiatrists do is push drugs!”
I have heard this repeatedly, from students, wary patients, even family members who don’t pick up on a carefully worded hint that they just might benefit from getting help. For some reason, no one makes the same complaint about infectious disease specialists, or oncologists, though I wager that the success rates of our drug treatments are roughly equivalent.
As a psychiatrist, I try to treat people …
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Why clinical decision making in psychiatry is difficult
Medical education
“What about combined psychiatry-family medicine-neurology-internal medicine programs? Should I try to do a triple board program in psychiatry-child psychiatry and pediatrics?” Every April, I field such questions from a slew of rising fourth year students who have become, to their…
“What about combined psychiatry-family medicine-neurology-internal medicine programs? Should I try to do a triple board program in psychiatry-child psychiatry and pediatrics?”
Every April, I field such questions from a slew of rising fourth year students who have become, to their surprise (and sometimes dismay), passionately interested in psychiatry. Psychiatry is a shortage specialty and psychiatric issues rank high among the challenges facing medical care systems here and around the world. For …
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Should medical students consider a combined psychiatry residency?
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