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Can the Ruthven Impairment Assessment (RIA) differentiate reversible from irreversible static and progressive brain damage
Les Ruthven, Ph.D. clinical psychology Health blog: www.ruthvenassessments.com Email: dr.les.ruthven@gmail.com...
Why We Cannot Have Better Healthcare at Lower Cost?
By Leslie “Les” Ruthven, Ph.D. in clinical psychology Email: dr.les.ruthven@gmail.com...
Should Health Plans Restrict Physician Practices Which are Outside Their Training and Expertise?
Yes, if we are ever to have improved healthcare at...
When is a diagnosis of a mental disorder not a diagnosis? When it is in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the mental disorders (DSM)
By: Leslie (“Les”) Ruthven, Ph.D. in clinical psychology Email: dr.les.ruthven@gmail.com...
The Ten Minute Office Visit Is A Recipe For Much Poor Quality And Expensive Care
In my recent book on healthcare, “Much of U.S. Healthcare...
"Once-weekly Semaglutide In Adults With Overweight / Obesity"
John R.H. Wilding et al. N Eng. J Med, 2021....
"Anti-obesity Meds For Weight Loss: Finally A Breakthrough After 50 Years Of Trying?
Reported in Medscape psychiatry online Nov. 1, 2023 Review of...
Some Of The Limitations Of High Tech Medical Diagnostic Procedures
Don’t get me wrong, these diagnostic procedures such as X-ray,...
Ketamine No Better For Depression Than Placebo
Medscape psychiatry review of “Ketamine No Better for Depression than...
What Is Wrong With The Quality And Cost Of U.S. Healthcare
…a brief summary of “Much of U.S. Healthcare is broken—How...
Novel Agent Promising for Major Depression, a randomized steroid/placebo-controlled clinical trial
This was a large study that appeared in the J....
Novel Agent Promising For Major Depression? A Steroid / Placebo Clinical Trial
This was a large study that appeared in the J....
