“I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.” PeopleThinkingFactsCareRunningTodayLostSidesVoiceSleepEffectsEatingDoctorsRewardsPatientHearingTreatedTherapyOutcomesTreatmentHospitalsCapabilityFewerIncentivesConstraintsTherapistsMedicationSide EffectsMore KnowledgeFollow UpHearing Voices Author:Mark Vonnegut
“The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service” ThinkingWritingTryingHardMightReadingRadicalAudaciousThinking Hard Author:Mark Vonnegut
“Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art, you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.” ThinkingGivingArtLife IsArt IsLuckPaintStuckCertaintyDependentWhere You AreDissonanceWhere You Are GoingTypos Author:Mark Vonnegut
