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Meditation Medications
Your First Psychiatric Consultation
William R. Yee M.D., J.D.,
Copyright Applied for 08/31/2019
This is an orientation to psychiatric treatment that places medications into the context of health, mental illness, healthy living and alternative treatments of mental illness.
This is information is based upon my review of the medical literature since 1972 and my practice of general medicine, emergency room medicine, and psychiatry since 1972.
This is merely an initial introduction to the psychiatrist and the treatment of mental illness.
About the author
I have been the Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry in a Community Hospital, Medical Director of a four county and a five county Mental Health Center in Indiana from 1984 to 1986 and 1991 to 2001.
I have practiced psychiatry in Regional Medical Centers, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center in Hazard, Kentucky.
I have practiced psychiatry in Michigan Prisons including Riverside Psychiatric Hospital in Ionia Michigan: Bellamy Creek Prison in Ionia Michigan: I-Max prison in Ionia Michigan; Brooks Prison in Muskegon, Michigan; Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent City, California; CSP-Sac prison in Folsom, California; San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, California.
I have worked in Forensic Psychiatric hospitals including Kalamazoo Psychiatric Hospital in Kalamazoo, Michigan; Patton State Hospital in Patton, California; and Atascadero State Hospital in Atascadero, California.
I have testified as a psychiatric expert witness in probate court, civil, and criminal trials in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, and California.
I have worked at Fort Hood, Texas with active military suffering from PTSD, closed head injuries and other stress related mental illnesses.
I have worked in private practice clinics as well as the numerous public agencies listed above.
I share my experience with the public to assist in understanding what psychiatry can and cannot do. I am here to do no harm, and to help if I can
