Dr. Bernard Carroll, known as the "conscience of psychiatry," contributed to various blogs, including Margaret Soltan's University Diaries, for which he sometimes wrote limericks under the name Adam.
New York Times
George Washington University English professor Margaret Soltan writes a blog called University Diaries, in which she decries the Twilight Zone-ish state our holy land’s institutes of higher ed find themselves in these days.
The Electron Pencil
It’s [UD's] intellectual honesty that makes her blog required reading.
Professor Mondo
There's always something delightful and thought intriguing to be found at Margaret Soltan's no-holds-barred, firebrand tinged blog about university life.
AcademicPub
You can get your RDA of academic liars, cheats, and greedy frauds at University Diaries. All disciplines, plus athletics.
truffula, commenting at Historiann
Margaret Soltan at University Diaries blogs superbly and tirelessly about [university sports] corruption.
Dagblog
University Diaries. Hosted by Margaret Soltan, professor of English at George Washington University. Boy is she pissed — mostly about athletics and funding, the usual scandals — but also about distance learning and diploma mills. She likes poems too. And she sings.
Dissent: The Blog
[UD belittles] Mrs. Palin's degree in communications from the University of Idaho...
The Wall Street Journal
Professor Margaret Soltan, blogging at University Diaries... provide[s] an important voice that challenges the status quo.
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Inside Higher Education
[University Diaries offers] the kind of attention to detail in the use of language that makes reading worthwhile.
Sean Dorrance Kelly, Harvard University
Margaret Soltan's ire is a national treasure.
Roland Greene, Stanford University
The irrepressibly to-the-point Margaret Soltan...
Carlat Psychiatry Blog
Margaret Soltan, whose blog lords it over the rest of ours like a benevolent tyrant...
Perplexed with Narrow Passages
Margaret Soltan is no fan of college sports and her diatribes on the subject can be condescending and annoying. But she makes a good point here...
Outside the Beltway
From Margaret Soltan's excellent coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal comes this tip...
Money Law
University Diaries offers a long-running, focused, and extremely effective critique of the university as we know it.
Anthony Grafton, American Historical Association
The inimitable Margaret Soltan is, as usual, worth reading. ...
Medical Humanities Blog
I awake this morning to find that the excellent Margaret Soltan has linked here and thereby singlehandedly given [this blog] its heaviest traffic...
Ducks and Drakes
As Margaret Soltan, one of the best academic bloggers, points out, pressure is mounting ...
The Bitch Girls
Many of us bloggers worry that we don’t post enough to keep people’s interest: Margaret Soltan posts every day, and I more or less thought she was the gold standard.
Tenured Radical
University Diaries by Margaret Soltan is one of the best windows onto US university life that I know.
Mary Beard, A Don's Life
[University Diaries offers] a broad sense of what's going on in education today, framed by a passionate and knowledgeable reporter.
More magazine, Canada
If deity were an elected office, I would quit my job to get her on the ballot.
Notes of a Neophyte
July 8th, 2011 at 2:26PM
same here in the good old usa, can’t tell you how many folks are on meds and are getting no symptom relief but still take them, if they mention this to their providers (which rarely happens without prompting) than they often get a 2nd script on top of the 1st, the worst are folks coming out of alcohol/substance abuse in-patient units who have whole laundry lists.
as for the 2nd study how hard would it be for medical providers to ask about the stressors in their pt’s lives? too hard apparently.
July 8th, 2011 at 3:35PM
This is the price we all are paying for the missteps by the psychiatric guild over 30 years ago. What was called the psychiatric bible (DSM-III) has had a ruinous effect on clinical practice and on psychiatric research. I have called the present situation an epistemologic quagmire, here: http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2009/04/in-defense-of-psychiatric-diagnoses-and.html
July 10th, 2011 at 2:54PM
In an editorial accompanying the AJP report, Dr. Carol Tamminga, chair of psychiatry at UT Southwestern, envisioned “…a good era when we can talk with high expectations about personalized and preemptive psychiatric approaches….” (When Is Polypharmacy an Advantage? Am J Psychiatry 168:663, July 2011). Not surprisingly, Dr. Tamminga glosses over the department’s failures.
John Nardo, MD, has written extensively about the escapades of UT Southwestern psychiatry faculty, here:
http://tinyurl.com/3fx4gaz
July 11th, 2011 at 10:14AM
When health care resources are scarce and rationed, time-consuming treatments such as talking therapy go out the window. It takes seconds to write a script, and then the patient can be defined as being treated. That’s certainly a piece of the explanation here, though not the whole of it.