Articles – Sally Satel, M.D.

Sally Satel, M.D.

Author of PC, M.D. How Political Correctness is Corrupting Medicine

Inside the Campaign to Blacklist ‘Zionist’ Therapists

Doctors Should Leave Their Politics at Home

Medscape Gets Smoked

‘Sociopath’ and ‘Borderline’ Review: Understanding Personality Disorders

Mass General Brigham Puts Antiracism Ahead of Their Patients’ Health

A Textbook Case of Social Justice Medicine Run Amok

In Medicine, Center Excellence Not Identity

Addiction Treatment Can Work Even When It’s Not Voluntary

Report From a Multidisciplinary Symposium on the Future of Living Kidney Donor Transplantation

“Defining Deviancy Down” at 30: Reflections on Crime, Welfare, and Mental Health

Physicians, Heal Thyselves

Social Justice in Psychotherapy and Beyond

His Michael: Review of ‘The Best Minds’ by Jonathan Rosen

Trauma Therapy Has Captured America—and Prince Harry, Too

Focus on the Research, Not the Researcher

‘Good Girls’ Review: When the Body Is a Battleground

Opioids and Appalachia—An Origin Story

The Flawed Case for Executing the Mentally Ill

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

Are Florida Universities Training Therapists to Be Political Activists?

Social-justice shrinks: how identity politics infected therapy

Vaping: The Great Innovation Public Health Failed to Embrace

“The Moral Sense” and the Human Brain

We Have to Make Organ Donors Whole

The stories we tell about mental illness—others’ and our own

America Should Allow Death Row Organ Donation

Give Donors a Tax Credit: Ideas to Increase Transplant Organ Donation

We Need Both High- and Low-Tech Approaches to the Shortage of Organs for Transplantation

The ‘Open Secret’ on Getting a Safe Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

The Limits of the DSM-5

How Rochelle Walensky Can Improve the CDC’s Pain Guidelines

‘Healing’ Review: More Help for Mental Health, Please

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine (Unabridged Version)

The Next Pig Thing in Medicine

Don’t Forget the Immunocompromised

Sally Satel on Addiction, the Opioid Crisis, Deaths of Despair, and How Psychiatry Has Gone Woke

What is Happening to My Profession?

Ending the Epidemic of Public-Nuisance Litigation

The Experts Somehow Overlooked Authoritarians on the Left

This Will Make Us All Freer

‘Wounding Warriors’ Review: Ready But Not Able

The Opioids Crisis: Don’t Punish Pain Patients To Treat Opioid Addiction

When Therapists Become Activists

‘Undoing Drugs’ Review: First, Do Less Harm

Do No Harm: Critical Race Theory and Medicine

Vaccines probably don’t work on me. So I must rely on others to beat covid-19.

As FDA Readies Menthol Cigarette Ban, What’s Next?

Keep Social-Justice Indoctrination Out of the Therapist’s Office

‘The Quick Fix’ Review: A Bias Toward Easy Answers

The Truth about Painkillers (Annotated version)