I Am Dropping Out of Daily Authorship of The Frontier Psychiatrists.

In solidarity, I make a difficult choice

My Fellow Americans,

Owen Scott Muir, M.D., DFAACAP.

July 21, 2024

Over the past two years, we have made great progress as readers of sometimes-satirical newsletters about health-related topics published on a daily cadence.

Today, The Frontier Psychiatrists has the strongest readership in the tiny market of daily health-themed sort-of-funny health-themed newsletters. We've made historic investments in rebuilding our ability to read things daily, in complaining about problems related to lowering prescription drug costs for seniors, and, despite my best efforts, expanding affordable health care to a record number of Americans is not what is happening. However, we—that is, the royal we—have complained about the above topics relentlessly and on a daily basis.

We've provided critically needed humor to 80,000 readers a month exposed to toxic anti-psychiatry and pro-Optum ideas. We looked on as the federal government passed the first gun safety law in 30 years; gun violence still became the lead…