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by Charles E. Dean (Author)
The raging COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our trust in science. Contents are set in a clinical context, wherein misconduct and fraud affect rational prescribing, a process that depends on balancing the risk-benefit ratio of treatments, whether pharmacologic or psychotherapeutic.
Author Biography
Dr Dean has his residency training in psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati. He then volunteered for the service in the US Army Medical Corp and was stationed at the 2nd General Hospital in Landstuhl West Germany from 1965-1968, followed by 13 years at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had a short stint in private practice, then joined the Minneapolis VA Medical Center in 1987. In 2012 he retired from clinical practice but has remained a voting member of the Institutional Review Board and the Pharmacy and Formulary Committee. He has won 7 Teacher of the Year awards from the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Minnesota Department of Psychiatry, where he developed and taught courses in clinical neuroscience and psychopharmacology. His primary research interests have been in tardive dyskinesia, diagnoses, psychotropic medications, and the history of psychiatry.
