As a result of recent media publicity about surgeon’s performance, I began thinking that I rarely if ever see any stories in the media about psychological harm caused by failures in psychiatric treatments. I reflected on this and thought, that with surgery it is easier to spot errors in retrospect because patients can be subject to x-rays, scans and other tests to show physical things that went wrong procedurally. But in psychiatry where we use medications (or  occasionally ECT), thereRead More …