Scott Standage is a Stanford-trained specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) with more than two decades of clinical experience in musculoskeletal and neurological rehabilitation. He has practiced medicine at leading institutions, including Stanford and Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and currently sees patients at an outpatient clinic in California.
After being misdiagnosed and treated with powerful psychiatric medications for a sleep disorder, he endured years of medical maltreatment that cost him his career, his reputation, and nearly his life. His new book, White Coats and Black Swans: A Doctor's Descent into Misdiagnosis and Madness (Amplify Publishing, October 13, 2026), advocates for diagnostic reform, mental health accountability, and evidence-based treatment pathways. Learn more at scottstandage.com, and follow him on LinkedIn.
During deliberations in the recent murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, jurors made an unusual request. They asked to see the bags of prescription medication bottles that had been introduced into evidence.
Clancy’s defense had argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis when she killed her three young children in 2023, and that her condition had been compounded by overmedication and inadequate psychiatric care. Prosecutors disputed that account. After weeks of …
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12 psychiatrists missed my medication-induced psychosis
