Psychiatrists are PAID to drug your children…
New York Times writer Gardiner Harris exposes the dirty secret behind closed doors and under the table dealings. If you are wondering if someone is profiting from the disproportionate increase in psychotropic drugs given to children at an increasingly earlier age, here’s an answer. But I’m betting that most nurses think this is acceptable treatment and that America has the most mentally ill children on this planet. I DON’T AGREE. Nurses have a Code of Ethics that puts us responsible for our patients welfare before any other socially acceptable, “don’t rock the boat”, we are the hand maiden’s to the all-knowing doctors of psychiatry. Let’s don’t be asleep at the wheel. Nurses drive the quality of healthcare. It’s our interactions with patients and behind the scenes coordination with other healthcare workers that produces positive outcomes for our patients. It’s obvious to many of us, including other MDs and Psychiatrists, that the pharmaceutical industry has undue influence in the treatment of the mentally ill. And if they aren’t diagnosed with the new “disorder” of the week in the DSM, they’ll make one up soon enough. What I am asking of you, my fellow nurses, is to LOOK for yourself and see if you don’t find something amiss in this area of medical practice. It’s my intention to change the course of treatment of the mentally ill to less coercive, more humane treatment. Back in the late 1800’s, in America, the mentally ill were housed on farms with clean rooms, open windows to look out upon pastures of nature, and given work on the farm as therapy. This was actually a workable environment until WWII and the German Psychiatry infiltrated America with it’s Eugenics viewpoint. Look for yourself, read this article, support House Bill 2387, sign the Nurses Call to Arms below.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/27/health/psychology/27doctors.html
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http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/NrseCall2Arms/