‘Acadia Healthcare is holding people against their will to maximize insurance payouts, a Times investigation found….’ ( via The New York Times )

Earlier in my career, I spent several years as the medical director of a private (for-profit) psychiatric facility owned by a major competitor of Acadia which operated in much the same way. As one of my friends and colleagues, a medical director of a sister facility, put it, I felt like I had to shower off the filth every night when I came home from work. Fortunately, I resigned in time to preserve my self-respect and vowed never to work in private sector hospital-based psychiatric care again. Thanks to the New York Times for this exposé; things stay the same, don’t they?