Steve McQueen, Sheryl Crow and The UNSCONSCIONABLE REALITY of Researchers far ahead of clinicians, Patients, family members, Policymakers and the Public

1/21/2026

The Science is now far ahead of what it was in 2019 (see the editorial to the right) -- but the road to getting these new understandings to Clinicians, Individuals, Family Members and the Public in general seems bogged down by inadequate or primitive forms of TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE.

Like STEVE McQUEEN (or SHERYL CROW) those researchers raced ahead, and most of our clinicians are far behind.

Part of this mess is that we don't have the same standards of proof or burden for DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES.

So researchers might think --- when we get this all figured out --- we'll let you know.

BUT we are already at LEGALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION -- but it is not held by the people most attorneys are going to tap as EXPERTS --- the CLINICIANS.

It's pretty hard to say most clinicians or forensic evaluators are operating below THE STANDARD OF CARE --- but that STARDARD CARE is far behind the research.

The RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS and the SOCIETY might very well say --- we don't want to do anything PREMATURELY.

Which is fine as far as it goes --- BUT these new understandings are raising all kinds of REASONABLE DOUBTS with regard to our policies in:

CRIMINAL JUSTICE,
HOMELESSNESS
MENTAL HEALTH and
HEALTH CARE generally

Now, I think it's possible to THREAD THAT NEEDLE but we can't do it by ignoring those REASONABLE DOUBTS or IGNORANCE by EXHAUSTION.

Clinicians got left in the dust along with Individuals, Family Members, Policymakers and the Public in general.

How Many Clinicians have had the SUPPORT to Incorporate the recommendations in the March 29, 2019 Editorial in Frontiers in Psychiatry?

Editorial: Recent Advances in Psychiatry From Psycho-Neuro-Immunology Research:

Autoimmune Encephalitis, Autoimmune Encephalopathy, and Mild Encephalitis