The MPS does not endorse any candidate running for political office. However, we believe it’s important to alert our members to their views on issues important to psychiatrists and our patients.

The following questions were sent to each candidate for governor for their responses.

Q: Please tell us about what you are doing now—your professional activities, your writing.

The psychiatric community receives a wealth of information to better serve our patients. Those versed in reproductive psychiatry can quickly reference potential guidelines with an FDA advisory, a litany of published articles in the coveted New England Journal of Medicine, and a series of eye catching headlines in both the psychiatric and popular press. At first glance, this deluge of information has given many clinicians a renewed sense of comfort in our world of pharmacopoeia.

On a snowy night in February, my wife and I decided to catch a movie at The Charles Theater.  Earlier in the week, I had seen a news story about a small, independent film entitled The Boys of Baraka about twenty “at-risk” Baltimore boys chosen to go to boarding school in Kenya to better prepare them for high school.  We decided to see it.  Fortunately, due to the snow, it was a relatively empty