Neurologist Calls for Surgeon General’s Resignation Over Mental HealthReport

March 6, 2000

Neurologist Calls for Surgeon General's Resignation Over Mental Health Report

Fred A. Baughman, Jr., M.D., a San Diego neurologist, has urged that Surgeon General David Satcher resign as a result of his Report on Mental Health. Baughman described the report as an "infomercial for biopsychiatry and the pharmaceutical cartel." He admonished Satcher: "It is your duty…to convey the medical science of the day to all Americans, yet, you put the considerable weight of your office behind representing the scientifically unproven ‘disorders’ of the psychiatric/pharmaceutical cartel to be actual ‘diseases.’" "The . . .