Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: June 16, 2022
I went to the APA annual meeting in New Orleans and am so glad I did.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: April 14, 2022
We need more action to provide appropriate and compassionate care for those who are unhoused and ill.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: December 2, 2021
How can we as a psychiatric community get us through this pandemic?
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: July 30, 2021
Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie says she counsels patients with PTSD about “three buckets” of treatment.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: January 29, 2021
Like combat troops, health care workers step back from their own needs in favor of the mission, several experts say.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: September 17, 2020
If health care workers cannot tolerate PPE, use desensitization- and anxiety-reducing techniques to help them. said Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: June 9, 2020
There are really no data upon which to base any sound ethics judgment about what should be tried, said Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: March 16, 2020
We have decided to restrict visitors out of the concern that one may infect a ward of patients and staff.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: March 10, 2020
Encourage patients to have an adequate supply of medications, said Dr. Cam Ritchie.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: October 6, 2019
Dr. Cam Ritchie discusses the many efforts taken by the military aimed at suicide prevention.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: November 12, 2018
Cam Ritchie issues a call for celebrating veterans and warns against stigmatizing them.
Opinion
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: October 16, 2018
Dr. Elspeth Cameron Ritchie says treatment should be structured so that patients can continue to work.
Article
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: October 24, 2016
Dr. Ritchie, a former military and current VA psychiatrist, offers advice to civilian clinicians about how to connect with service members and vete...
News
- Author:
- Col. (Ret.) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, MPH
Publish date: April 30, 2015
