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Marco Ramos, MD, PhD, is a historian of medicine and psychiatry resident at Yale University. His historical research focuses on mental health activism and revolutionary politics in Latin America. Find him on Twitter @MRamos_histmed.
Decades of biological research haven't improved diagnosis or treatment. We should look to society, not to the brain.
American medicine has long functioned as an elitist institution, putting professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.
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