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The One-in-a-Million: Who Pays When Vaccines Harm?
The One-in-a-Million: Who Pays When Vaccines Harm?
Danger and professional responsibility collide in psychiatry: a federal jury awarded $75,000 to a man never examined by the psychiatrists who diagnosed him, and that verdict led to the Goldwater Rule - an ethics annotation debated and weaponized for over fifty years. Which duty matters more: a psychiatrist's obligation to warn the public or to stay silent?
In this episode, we tell how a 1964 magazine survey of 12,356 psychiatrists about Barry Goldwater became a landmark libel case, how the American Psychiatric Association responded with…
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