Have You Met This Amazing Psychiatrist?

An important piece of information for the public.

The Frontier Psychiatrists plural. It's the name of this newsletter. I didn't make it up, initially. The person who made it up is my wife. In fairness, The Frontier Psychiatrist (singular) is a song by the avalanches which my wife really likes. If you listen to the podcast version of this publication, which is more than me just reading the column (sometimes), the intro music is me doing a parody cover of that song.

I'm actually gonna use the embedded audio feature to just drop that song right into this article. Look at that. Or, really, listen to that!

I like the avalanches a lot. Originally, my wife came up with the name for the purpose of our creator first show on the Clubhouse app. We were d-list celebrities in the pandemics! We had a very buzzy live show on the very fuzzy live Social audio app clubhouse. Although the company face planted, we learned a lot from the experience. The newsletter that you're currently reading started as a companion publication to that clubhouse show, and has now gone onto succeeded in a way that that platform never did. How very exciting. My wife is awesome. One of the interesting things about how awesome my wife is that given we don't have the same last name, people don't actually necessarily know we're married. And so one of the very regular things that happens is that people will meet one of us, or meet the other one of us, and then get really excited and try to introduce us to each other. “ there's this other amazing Psychiatrist in New York who's doing interventional psychiatry, you've gotta meet them!” folks will reliably say. And then either Carlene or myself will have to break it down to them, and let them know that other amazing person happens to be downstairs with the kids right now.

Yes, I'm married to one of the other best psychiatrists I know. No, we don't think the same things. We have some of the same opinions, but differ on a number of important points as it relates to the practice of psychiatry. We work together, sometimes, and not together, at other times. We're different people. But we are extremely lucky to have each other.

Today, I wanted to let the world know that Carlene MacMillan, M.D.? That's my wife. So you don't actually have to spend the time in introducing us to each other, because we've already met.

All of this is a relatively silly introduction, but it gives me the excuse to include this video, which is a recent interview between Carlene and another colleague on his podcast! Arjun Nanda, M.D. Is a child adolescent and adult psychiatrist, and is doing really nice work on the mental health forecast show. And I can tell he's doing really nice work, because he has great guests on like Carlene, and previously, me.

I hope you enjoy this interview with Carlene and Arjun discussing measurement based care in psychiatry, and I'll let you enjoy it. Please feel free to subscribe to his show, on YouTube, and share it with your friends.