Posted on February 19 , 2020
Black History Month: Dr. Carl C. Bell Carl C. Bell, MD, may have died in 2019 at the age of 71, but his contributions to psychiatry will live on. He wrote about and spoke for many issues, including fetal alcohol syndrome disorders (FASD), bipolar disorder, and trauma. Bell practiced in […]
Posted on February 07 , 2020
Dr. Beny J. Primm, tireless advocate for treating drug addiction and preventing the spread of AIDS Beny J. Primm, M.D., was enjoying his chosen field of obstetrics and gynecology, but when he was a resident at a Long Island hospital he found that many white patients did not want to […]
Posted on February 03 , 2020
Frederick Douglass Spoke for Freedom, Equality — and Abstaining from Alcohol Frederick Douglass is well known for being an abolitionist, a supporter of the suffragist movement, and for being a powerful writer and accomplished speaker. He was also known for championing temperance, or abstinence from alcohol. Douglass experienced indescribable cruelties […]
