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And at the same time let me give you a heads up for full disclosure and also for purposes of a lively discussion that im going to challenge you a little bit on the points that you make in the book as practicing psychiatrist and head of the largest, one of the largest psychiatry departments in the world i know something about the budget matter, but please do know that i do this in the best of intentions and in the interest of clarity and accuracy and the believe that we are both soldiers in this very important historically neglected mission. Im going to orient my questions along three themes, first your background, second, substantive issues that you address in the book and then third, what are the steps Going Forward that we can sort of advocate or aim for in order to provide some corrective measures and what youll be doing Going Forward in that regard. So to begin, let me just ask, youre train as a journalist and comes from the best schools in the country, you could have picked anythi
That is needed and the priorities that it should have and you certainly seem to recognize it. Its also particularly gratifying to be interpreting you because youre clumsily along with having gone to the Journalism School which is one of the more dominant schools of a journalism in the country. Of course that is where i the faculty and am currently employed. So, speak to thank you, doctor. Host please, call me jeffrey. When someone calls me doctor it makes me feel old and dodgy. The book is a welltimed scathing indictment of the Mental Health care system in this country and overall i am in complete agreement with you. At the same time let me give you a heads up for full disclosure and the purposes of a lively discussion that i will challenge you a little bit on the points you make in the book. As a practicing psychiatrist and head of the largest Psychiatry Department in the world, i know something about the subject matter. Please, note that i do this in the best of intentions and in the
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And allow me to be critical of this because the media is our gateway to express our opinions and share what we think and what we do with the world that ideally the media has been called into this competition and i believe that it leads into the community has been unfairly portrayed in the media and i believe the media should not help politicians who are trying to scapegoat the community to give them the attention they dont deserve i think they should criticize them and in a way the media did criticizing the challenge donald trump on his false accusations. He just did it to divide the public and he knows better. So despite being corrected several times, he was giving me a lot of platforms in the communities of the way that i believe the media is showed this as being silent and not doing anything or just focused as the problem lies in the Muslim Community when in fact we have come to violence all over the place and in 2015 we have more than 355 mass shootings. That means more than one ma