Articles – Sally Satel, M.D.

Sally Satel, M.D.

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

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

The Remnant Podcast: Bad Medicine

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)

The Truth about Painkillers

As Overdoses Reach New Highs, Messaging on Addiction Needs More Nuance

What It’s Like To Treat Opioid Addiction in Appalachia: Psychiatrist Sally Satel on her eye-opening year at a clinic in Ironton, Ohio

Don’t Tax Prescription Opioids

Don’t Undo the Trump Administration’s Mental-Health Reforms

‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ Review: A Dose of Dissent

Steroid medication gave me disturbing side effects. They changed my life in bad — and good — ways.

Race for the Vaccine

Dark Genies, Dark Horizons: The Riddle of Addiction

‘White Market Drugs’ review: Addiction by prescription

Rethink Crisis Response (Unabridged Version)