Having devoted my 50-year career in psychiatry to public community mental health for the poor, rationing care was part and parcel of my clinics’ policies, procedures, and individual patient care decisions. We never had anywhere near the financial resources to provide the ideal and best care we could, and certainly had less funding than available for the more well-to-do. In my book The Ethical Way: Challenges & Solutions for Managed Behavioral Healthcare,2 I presented the ethical challenges of using the funds as fairly as possible. A prolific writer and speaker, he received the one-time designation of Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association in 2002. The Ethical Way: Challenges & Solutions for Managed Behavioral Healthcare.

Source: New York Times January 14, 2022 14:11 UTC