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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 put professional prestige over the well-being of patients and physicians alike.
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