The Carlat Report Wounded Healer Series is a Triumph
The Carlat Report podcast has been breaking important ground.
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a newsletter and podcast. It’s not a direct ripoff of the Carlat Report. However, it’s hard to be a psychiatrist in America who hasn’t relied on The Carlat Report to one degree or another to break down the evidence as you learn your craft. Their motto is “Keeping psychiatry honest since 2003.” It’s a newsletter since those were literal letters and a podcast since those were listened to on iPods.
In case it’s unclear—it’s not because psychiatry didn't need it as a medical discipline. Our diagnoses have been bent—ahem, bipolar disorder?—to suit the needs of pharma. Our tools for measurement, similarly, have been crafted historically to sell drugs.
The Carlat Report provides continuing medical education (CME), and its content has rules about who could or should have which industry bias in its crafting. The ACGME hands down those rules, and having spoken to Chris Aiken, M.D., the current edi…