Introduction In January 2015, Mr. Richard May entered a construction site in Half Moon Bay, California, with his neighbor to help retrieve the neighbor’s cat. An alarm was set off, summoning sheriff’s deputies to the site with a canine. The canine bit Mr. May, who was not resisting, fleeing, or armed, inflicting multiple puncture wounds […]

“Excited delirium” cannot be disentangled from its racist and unscientific origins and is not a valid, independent medical or psychiatric diagnosis.

The global Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has been met with rapid public health and policy responses. Shops and restaurants are closed. Entire cities and states have essentially shut down. Clinical trials seeking to identify treatments have been fast-tracked. Public officials continue to beat the drum on the importance of social distancing. Our […]