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In some segments of the evolving health care system, primary health care teams with psychiatry at their core are becoming a reality. Here are 6 ways psychiatrists add value to primary care health teams.

In this Letter to the Editor, practicing psychiatrist Richard Krugley, MD makes the case against the term "assisted suicide" when applied to terminally ill patients. Drs. Pies and Geppert respond.

It’s too bad that so many experts-in medicine and in other professions-can’t write for a lay audience. Here's some help.

An overview of various aspects of taking notes and suggestions for effective documentation.

This has been a busy year for mental health technologies, but 2017 promises to bring advances never before seen in psychiatry.

Health care and medical education must march ever onward-although recently there has been a growing uprising among the ranks of experienced physicians.

As our understanding of the brain and new technologies have rapidly evolved, such an extensive text on psychiatric ethics is clearly timely.

The most popular searches in Psychiatric Times during 2016. See what your colleagues are searching for and reading!

Here’s a very unscientific survey of this year’s most meaningful issues is psychiatry. Quite a year.

Dr. Moffic remembers psychiatrists whose lives provided a model for the wider field of psychiatry in 2016. They are truly "gone but not forgotten."

Here is a year's worth of CMEs you can take right now.

When a psychiatrist evaluates a patient, there is much to be valued in trying to adopt the patient’s internal perspective of cultural mores and world views. But what are the limits to cultural sensitivity?

Meet "Gary," whose case provides an introduction to the value of systems-based practice.

I started promoting pharmacogenetic tests in the 1990s-before they were fashionable-and now, after going through the 3 phases of pharmacogenetic testing (fear, failure, and hype), I am embarrassed.

What does mandated electronic prescribing have to do with that old show, Twilight Zone?

The next phase of HIPAA compliance audits has arrived. Clinicians who are HIPAA-covered entities-or business associates-would be well served to prepare now.

“Googling” a patient does not seem much different from the old-fashioned obtaining of collateral information, but the ramifications may be far more than you bargain for.

The ethical core of the Goldwater Rule is sound, but the rule needs clearer and more nuanced language.

With the modern office environment comes another type of “climate change”-designed to shape workers psychologically.

"Everyday experiences made sacramental through magical language, depth of feeling, and wells of knowledge"–one of your peers used this description for a book he found inspiring. Can you think of more?

Do psychiatrists add value to primary care health teams compared to non-psychiatrist mental health providers?

If left untreated, burnout can become chronic and debilitating. Here are tips to recognizing the signs and symptoms.

Once a health care professional has reached a chronic stage of burnout, lives may be at stake. But prevention and treatment are possible.

The very traits that define a good physician make it difficult for most doctors to prioritize basic self-care. Many fail to notice early signs of dysfunction.

Collaboration between the psychiatric nurse practitioner and psychiatrist will be part of the solution to the workforce issue that leaves so many underserved patients without good mental health care.

Children in foster care; combat vets; physicians with mental health needs: Dr Koh introduces a series of articles on these and other special patient populations.

In recent years, health care insurance companies (and the businesses that use them) have begun to invest in mindfulness research and programs What has happened to explain this development?

With the standard aversion to moonlighting in the emergency department at the local hospital, lots of us have asked the same question: “What else can I do to pay the bills?”

Drained physicians who don't practice self care may harm themselves and their patients. Here's one way to take a breather.

Although genetic discoveries are sprouting up like wildflowers, let's stop and smell the roses.