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Few Americans are receiving adequate psychiatric care or psychological support these days — either because their health insurance doesn’t cover it, or because they don’t have insurance to begin with, or because wait lists run far too long. (10/4)

While many Floridians are focused on cleaning up the storm’s aftermath — clearing fallen trees, repairing power lines and rebuilding homes — some residents are dealing with the ripple effect of emotional and mental-health issues that tend to follow natural disasters. (Melanie Brown-Woofter, 10/3)

The anti-abortion movement has long loved to profess its love for democracy. Clarke Forsythe of Americans United for Life consistently called on the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade and put questions about abortion “back into voters’ hands—where they belong.” The National Catholic Register proclaimed the day Roe was overturned “a wonderful day for democracy.” (Mary Ziegler, 10/3)

The healthcare industry continues to face an era of seismic change and disruption, one in which the demand for effective physician leadership is rising more dramatically than ever. The COVID-19 pandemic brought this need into sharp relief as exhausted clinicians, contentious politicians and a terrified public cried out for leaders with medical training and priorities beyond the financial bottom line. (Dr. Peter Angood, 10/4)

Institutions aren’t good enough at diagnosing maladies and are worse than ever at simple measures like keeping patients walking while hospitalized. Not failings of clinical people, these are expressions of system breakdown – the underlying disease declaring itself – and their cause is no mystery. (John Corsino, 10/3)

A little over a century ago, scientists working in laboratories discovered that microbes were the cause of many epidemics. Once they understood that, they began to put their faith more and more in laboratory science. This major transformation, called the bacteriological revolution, began in the 1880s. (Jim Downs and Eleanor J. Murray, 10/4)

I was 11 years old when I thought about killing myself for the first time. Since then, I’ve struggled for more than a decade to overcome  suicidal ideations on a regular basis. (Madalyn Amato, 10/2)