Renegade Psych
by Ethan P. Short, MD
54 Why America Prescribes 90% of the World's Amphetamines
About this podcast
In more than a decade of training and clinical practice as a psychiatrist, I've become increasingly disillusioned by the American healthcare system. It prioritizes profit over progress at the expense of OUR health. The average American spends almost twice as much on healthcare as the next highest spending country, yet our life expectancy drags four years behind other industrialized nations and ranks OUTSIDE the top 50 in the world. The system is a disaster, yet it's broadcast as 'the greatest healthcare system in the world.' Renegade Psych wants to return medicine's focus to PROGRESS OVER PROFIT, and limit the influence and power of the pharmaceutical industry and big business entities, whose primary motivations are financial in nature.
This conversational podcast is released monthly via SERIES on particular topics. There are 8-12 SEGMENTS, or episodes, per topic. I interview internationally-recognized experts in their fields AND relatively unknown, up-and-coming healthcare providers. Hopefully, we can educate patients AND providers about our medical system (especially mental health), so they can make better and more informed healthcare decisions.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 189 episodes
- 54 Why America Prescribes 90% of the World's Amphetamines · 57 min · Season 54Join me and Ellie Jay in this episode tackling the systemic over-diagnosis and over-medication in American psychiatry. Starting with the argument that generalized anxiety…
- 53 How Lithium Repairs the Brain + What Psychiatry Still Doesn't Know with Jim Phelps, MD, Psychiatrist · 1 h 2 min · Season 53Dr. Jim Phelps — psychiatrist, educator, and founder of Psychoeducation.org — joins Dr. Ethan Short for a wide-ranging conversation about lithium, one of psychiatry's most…
- 52 Lindsay Clancy · 51 min · Season 52ACT Therapist Dr. Jessica Borushok: Stop Fighting Anxiety—Change Your Relationship to It: In this episode of Renegade Psych, psychiatrist Ethan and co-host Ellie Jay examine the…
- 51 Jessica Borushok, The ACT Therapist, PsyD · 1 h 9 min · Season 51 Episode 1ACT Therapist Dr. Jessica Borushok: Stop Fighting Anxiety—Change Your Relationship to It: In this episode of Renegade Psych, the host speaks with Dr. Jessica Borushok ("The ACT…
- 50.1 Functional Psychiatry with Dr. Jim Greenblatt, MD · 51 min · Season 50 Episode 1Hey folks, I'm trying something different by posting my full audio episodes on all non-YouTube platforms monthly instead of weekly. You can still see the video with graphics on…
- 49.1 Brazil perspective: Immoral Marketing of SSRIs, MAOIs, Lithium, Benzo's - FULL Interview Antonio Nardi, MD · 49 min · Season 49 Episode 1Hey folks, I'm trying something different by posting my full audio episodes on all non-YouTube platforms monthly instead of weekly. This conversation is with Antonio Nardi, MD…
- 48.1 Philanthropic Funding of Research by Elizabeth Lukens, DO student · 10 min · Season 48 Episode 1Join me as I read a monologue by a 3rd-year DO student (Pikeville, KY), Elizabeth Lukens, about ways to secure unbiased and unattached funding in order to remove financially…
- 47.4 Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimers: EXPENSIVE, UNSAFE, and INEFFECTIVE with Jon Berner, MD, PhD · 21 min · Season 47 Episode 4Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course…
- 47.3 Lithium is NOT a Panacea: Jon Berner, MD, PhD · 26 min · Season 47 Episode 3Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course…
- 47.2 USE MORE LITHIUM: Jon Berner, MD, PhD · 12 min · Season 47 Episode 2Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course…
- 47.1 Fantasy of Understanding Reality: Jon Berner, MD, PhD · 14 min · Season 47 Episode 1Join me and Jon Berner, MD/psychiatrist and PhD, about the broken US healthcare system, the abysmal state of affairs in treating and diagnosing mental health, and, of course…
- 46.6 AI: EMPOWERMENT was the Pitch, DEPENDENCY is the Business Model, with David Healy, MD · 17 min · Season 46 Episode 6Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a (now 6-part) series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide…
- 46.5 GLP-1s and SSRIs: EMPOWERMENT was the Pitch, DEPENDENCY is the Business Model, with David Healy, MD · 17 min · Season 46 Episode 5Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a (now 5-part) series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide…
- 46.4 The Cautionary Tale of Andrea Yates: SSRI Risk in Postpartum Depression (+ Visual Snow) with David Healy, MD · 31 min · Season 46 Episode 4Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a 4-part series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide and…
- 46.3 Don't Take SSRIs for Premature Ejaculation (+ the Preventable Suicide of Woody Witczak) with David Healy, MD · 33 min · Season 46 Episode 3Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a 4-part series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide and…
- 46.2 LISTEN TO YOUR PATIENTS; Responsible Prescribing with David Healy, MD · 25 min · Season 46 Episode 2Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a 4-part series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide and…
- 46.1 EXPERT: SSRIs, Suicide, and Homicide with David Healy, MD · 23 min · Season 46 Episode 1Join me as I talk with David Healy, MD, psychiatrist, in a 4-part series discussing his experiences testifying as an expert witness on the role of SSRIs in causing suicide and…
- 45.1 Hyperconnected Minds Unraveling: Impact of Information Overload · 5 min · Season 45 Episode 1Join me as I talk about the problem of information overload in modern times. If you'd like to watch the video versions of my content, flip on over to YouTube where you can…
- 44.2 Nuances of Therapy with Joe Kanengiser, SW · 31 min · Season 44 Episode 2Join me as I talk to Joe Kanengiser, SW, about his personal patient experiences with MCAS, POTS, and EDS/hypermobility spectrum (/general autoimmune dysfunction), as well as his…
- 44.1 MCAS/EDS/POTS and a Mixed Response to Low Dose Lithium with Joe Kanengiser, SW · 45 min · Season 44 Episode 1Join me as I talk to Joe Kanengiser, SW, about his personal patient experiences with MCAS, POTS, and EDS/hypermobility spectrum (/general autoimmune dysfunction), as well as his…







