The article emphasizes the critical state of mental health care in the U.S., which is often overshadowed by a focus on physical illnesses. This isolation is perpetuated through medical education, creating a divide between mental and physical health. The National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) recommendations call for radical reforms at the political level, including the establishment of a "Health System Accountability Board". This board will oversee health care policies to ensure cost-effective and comprehensive access to mental health services, addressing the power of the profit-driven medical industrial complex.
The National Academy of Medicine stresses the urgent need for a paradigm shift in mental health care, criticizing the existing system's exclusion of mental illnesses.
Medical education's narrow focus on physical health perpetuates a division between mind and body, neglecting the necessary integration of mental health.
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