Author | Erik R. Vanderlip, MD, MPH

May 13, 2016

Family doc/psychiatrist Erik Vanderlip points to 3 big elephants in the room at the 2016 American Psychiatric Association meeting.

April 18, 2016

If we support the basic survival needs of the homeless first and stay fully invested in their progress, we could actually have a shot at success.

March 09, 2016

Because it makes medical and financial sense, says our blogger who is a psychiatrist and family physician.

January 30, 2015

The reasons reflect the silence that surrounds depression, its basic invisibility, and the mistaken notion that it can't be dealt with in primary care.

February 18, 2014

As science and innovation breed new developments in medical care, we’ll be faced again and again with the same question. Who's working on the answer?

December 30, 2013

Mr M's diabetes remained stubbornly uncontrolled despite all appropriate clinical interventions. The day I read his first psychiatric hospital admission history I was stunned to see on paper what we had all missed in the flesh. What value is adherence to treatment in the face of sheer hopelessness?

November 20, 2013

Four inpatient detentions in 4 months, but Jennifer happily caught a bus to head home. Was this case another crisis averted? Or just another flagrant waste of limited funds?

October 02, 2013

A patient no-shows. What's your gut reaction? Be honest. Relief, right? But after the relief is drowned in a flood of walk-ins and emergencies, I wonder about my role in community medicine.

September 09, 2013

Pay-for-performance medicine will, eventually judge--and pay--clinicians by the percentage of patients who fill their medications and are adherent to therapies.

August 05, 2013

Clipping the hardened toenails of a mentally ill patient made me wonder whose hands care for the feet of countless others who can't care for themselves.