by Robert L. Okin, MD
admin As I walked down Market Street in San Francisco early one morning I saw many people lying on the sidewalk. It got me wondering whether I was seeing a representative sample of people who are homeless. I thought it might be useful to look at some national data and to sort it in different ways … Read more
Dr. Okin was a guest on Jim Foster’s Conversations on the Coast.
Welcome to the launch of my new blog, “Silent Voices.” I have been interested in people with severe mental illness throughout my professional career, from before the time I was commissioner of mental health for Vermont and Massachusetts through my 17 years as chief of psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital and professor of clinical … Read more