Patrick J. Kennedy: “Sir, we are never going to be able to achieve a defense of an American facility abroad against that level of lethality…”

the process to seek help should not be a barrier to receiving help.

there are hundreds of thousands of my fellows in America who are dying because their medical system does not know they have an underlying addiction because it doesn't show in the EMR that they have been treated for addiction.

we have made progress in normalizing conversations and reducing stigma about mental illness, it is clear, it is so clear

the bottom line is, when I go into the ER, if I am going in with COVID or something else and they don't understand about my underlying psychiatric issues, or in the case of addiction they do not know that I am someone who suffered from the…