Go to any psychiatrist at the conference and criticize psychiatry in these terms—“Don’t you think our field is systemically racist and sexist and fails to understand that the true problem is Capitalism?” and they will enthusiastically agree and maybe even tell you stories about how their own experience proves that’s true and how they need to try to do better.
Is there any criticism that can touch these people at all?
Here’s my proposal: ask why they prescribe s-ketamine instead of racemic ketamine for treatment-resistant depression.
If you say this, psychiatrists will push back. If you say it in a confrontational way—maybe you hint that they’ve outsourced their thought processes to a handful of regulators and pharmaceutical companies even when this severely disadvantages patients, because thinking for themselves is hard and scary—they’ll get offended. The world is full of psychiatrists who will confess to systemic racism with a smile on their face, then get all huffy when you ask them about esketamine.
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