Meditation Medications Your First Psychiatric Consultation William R. Yee M.D., J.D., Copyright Applied for 08/31/2019 This is an orientation to psychiatric treatment that places medications into the context of health, mental illness, healthy living and alternative treatments of mental illness. This is information is based upon my review of the medical literature since 1972 and my practice of general medicine, emergency room medicine, and psychiatry since 1972. This is merely an initial introduction to the psychiatrist and the treatment of mental illness.
Author Biography:
I have been practicing emergency room medicine, general medicine, and psychiatry in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, California, and Texas since 1972. I have been the Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry in a community hospital, Medical Director of a four-county and a five-county mental health center in Indiana, from 1984 to 1986 and from 1991 to 2001. I have practiced psychiatry in regional medical centers, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and Hazard ARH Regional Medical Center, in Hazard Kentucky. I have practiced psychiatry in in Michigan Prisons including, Riverside Psychiatric Hospital, in Ionia Michigan, and Bellamy Creek Prison in Ionia, Michigan and I-Max in Ionia Michigan, Brooks Prison in Muskegon, Michigan, Pelican Bay Prison in Crescent City, California, CSP-Sac prison in Represa, California, San Quentin Prison in San Quentin, California. I have practiced psychiatry in forensic psychiatric hospitals in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Atascadero and Patton, California, and Caro, Michigan. I have testified as and expert in psychiatry in state and federal courts in civil and criminal trials in Michigan, Kentucky, Indiana, and California. I have worked with soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries and PTSD. I am here to do no harm, and to help if I can. Be kind and you can be my friend.
