J. Wesley Boyd

Dec 11, 2024 | statnews.com | J. Wesley Boyd

Adobe In recent years, there has been a growing awareness about the mental health challenges faced by medical students. The pandemic only exacerbated concerns about med student well-being, making it more critical than ever to ensure that future physicians with mental health issues have access to top-notch, affordable, confidential care. But is that happening? I am a psychiatrist and former associate director in a state physician health program (PHP).

May 4, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | J. Wesley Boyd

The implosion of the once-high-flying medical testing startup Theranos was an unmitigated disaster: a fraudulent health tech company led by a charismatic, articulate figurehead, disseminating deceitful diagnostic claims about its blood tests. Such laboratory developed tests (LDTs), which are created and utilized within individual laboratories and meant for use in patients, have never required any approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Mar 19, 2024 | kevinmd.com | J. Wesley Boyd |Monique Tello |Dennis Hursh |Mark Lopatin

I am a former associate director in a state physician health program (PHP). I also hold faculty appointments at Baylor College of Medicine and Harvard Medical School in medical ethics and psychiatry. There is a little-known nether realm inhabited by a subset of doctors who have or are suspected of having substance use disorders. These physicians often are referred to state PHPs which, because they’re generally considered voluntary in nature, have little to no oversight.