Psychiatrically Hospitalized in Silicon Valley

"The Unbearable Heaviness of Being" and the highly variable amount of money it can cost.

Readers of The Frontier Psychiatrists noticed there's a plural in the title of of the newsletter, quixotically hoping that people other than myself to write engaging content for you. And today. That's happening. It's my pleasure to introduce my dear friend and colleague Dr. David Carreon, M.D., CEO of Acacia Clinics, who brings us the following article.

Hello world!

This is my debut post as a “frontier” psychiatrist and I’m going to write about the various costs that may befall a person with severe depression. I recently read a cost-effectiveness analysis that did good math on a fake scenario. If you’ve been reading this newsletter, you know that psychiatry doesn’t always follow evidence-based guidelines. And you also know that evidence-based guidelines aren’t always based on the best evidence. For policy-makers, sometimes it’s important to know what actually happens. 

Over the past decade, I’ve worked in Silicon Valley as a psychiatrist—from inpatient to the emergency department to o…