- Caring for Depression
- Kenneth B. Wells
- Roland Sturm
- Cathy D. Sherbourne
- Lisa S. Meredith
- Although depression is a major illness affecting millions of people, it is seriously undertreated in the United States. The ongoing shift of mental-health care away from specialists and toward primary medical-care providers is causing fewer depressed patients to be appropriately diagnosed and treated. The authors urge the integration of both medical and economic considerations in designing policies for the treatment of depression.
- Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1999
- Drug-Impaired Professionals
- Robert Holman Coombs
- Professionals trusted with our well-being are the last people we suspect of drug addiction. And yet they are at least as likely as anyone else to abuse alcohol and other drugs--a well-kept secret finally aired and fully examined in this powerful book. Drawing on more than 120 personal interviews with addicted physicians, dentists, nurses, pharmacists, attorneys, and airline pilots and those who treat them, Robert Coombs gives us a startling picture of drug abuse among "pedestal professionals."
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000