Douglas Berger psychiatrist Tokyo is an American board certified psychiatrist and is the Director of the Tokyo Meguro Counseling Center. He’s also fully bilingual in Japanese and English. Dr. Berger received his M.D. and psychiatry training from New York Medical College, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine at the Tokyo University School of Medicine. He speaks native-level Japanese. Dr. Berger utilizes a variety of approaches to psychiatry, which you can find here, and on the Tokyo Meguro Counseling Center’s home page.
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Lately everybody and their grandma have become proud armchair epidemiologists, virologists, maskologists, and vaccinologists. If I disagree with something and remind them, “actually I have a license to practice medicine”, sparks can fly. Very disconcerting.
If a clinical trial endpoint is subjective like depression, there must be a blind placebo control group. If you will blast a building and want to measure the damage, you don't need a placebo control group because this is objective. Clearly, a no-blast will show no damage.
Clinical trials require that the data collection is going to be exact. Many a trial fails when the data is audited. This is called Good Clinical Practice. #clinicaltrials
Poor sleep and meds: many people give-up quickly when there is plenty of chance to adjust dose, type, and regimen where a rotation of drug-type is often effective. #insomnia
Medication doses and formulations can differ from country to country. Creative adjustments of dose breaking pills or emptying capsules and close monitoring until the patient moves into a new stable state are good ways to handle this issue. #drugformulation #medications
Does everything need a medication on the formulary? Some things do, some don’t. Natural remedies sound “corny” and don’t make much money for medical stakeholders.
Halving or stopping meds often leads to…nothing, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some withdrawal or recurrence. Each step of the way in medication management requires patience.
New expensive meds gets lots of praise, old cheap meds commonly get a bad rap. How should we think? Carefully. Look at data with a discerning eye, see what entities stand to benefit or loose, that usually is the best hint.
Faced with contradictions to a life narrative, people who unreasonably try to fit facts into this narrative inevitably run into the ground or live on in an “unknowing” state of false bliss. Us: https://t.co/xJKjtzqJ7S, https://t.co/bggAMvGq8V
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