
- Vol 31 No 3
- Volume 31
- Issue 3
Data Point
Three years deep in despair, he’s swallowed every pill I prescribed...
While reviewing the results of a drug study for treatment-resistant depression
Three years deep in despair, he’s swallowed
every pill I prescribed. Refusing ECT,
his family and I convinced him to give
research medication one last shot.
Unblinded data arrived today and glows
on my computer screen, each depressed
patient’s response graphed with a dot,
the experimental molecule clearly beating
placebo, my patient’s outlier point six feet under
the rising line of success, a speck of coal
on a snow-covered field, my mind expanding
the insignificant dot to a skull’s eye socket
staring me down like a Beretta’s bullet hole.
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End-of-Life Decisions: Who Decides and the Role of the Psychiatristover 11 years ago
Revive Flurothyl Inhalation Therapyover 11 years ago
Prescribing Psychotropics for Women of Childbearing Potentialover 11 years ago
Introduction: The Brave New World of Psychiatric Ethicsover 11 years ago
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