Diagnosis can be a tetchy subject in neurodiversity. Diagnosis isn’t distributed fairly across gender, class, race, age or sexuality. There are implicit biases built into diagnostic criteria and ...

Over the last 6 decades, many published commentaries, from both within and outside the medical community, have criticized medicine’s characterization and management of mental illness and disability.

In “Straight Talk with Rick and Jal,” Harvard University’s Jal Mehta and I examine some of the reforms and enthusiasms that permeate education. In a field full of buzzwords and jargon, our goal is ...

In Ahmed Samei Huda’s book, The Medical Model in Mental Health, the author effectively situates the field of mental health within the purview of the medical model. Huda provides a critique of aspects ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Eric J. Topol, MD: This is Eric Topol with my co-host Abraham Verghese for Medscape's Medicine and the Machine. Today, we welcome Tom Insel, who led the ...

ADHD may reflect environment mismatch; meds help short-term, not long-term. A growing body of research challenges the traditional medical model of ADHD, suggesting that the condition is often shaped ...

Government claims that physician associates (PAs) are trained to the ‘medical model’ are designed to ‘mislead’, the BMA has argued. Academic leaders at the union have put out a statement today ...

Medical Model Teaches Students Art of Gentle Exams Amy Littlefield became a gynecological model to help medical students learn the fine art of pelvic examination without pain and embarrassment.