Marco Ramos, MD, PhD, is a historian of medicine and psychiatry resident at Yale University.
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Marco Ramos, MD, PhD, is a historian of medicine and psychiatry resident at Yale University.
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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