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I am a New York-based general practitioner, medical journalist, and fiction writer. Drawing on my medical background, my work is defined by a lifelong commitment to medical advocacy—defending the individual against coercive systems of psychiatry and the corporate influences that sustain them. Currently, I focus my professional efforts on three critical pillars:
Clinical Advocacy: Through my virtual telehealth practice, I offer Holistic Lifestyle & Nutrition Coaching that nurtures good health in body, mind, and spirit. Rather than practicing traditional primary care medicine, I offer holistic wellness alternatives that prioritize the "whole person" over a diagnosis, supporting your bodily autonomy and informed consent.
Journalistic Advocacy: As an independent reporter at DrMandelNews.com, I primarily investigate and expose psychiatric abuses. My mission is to give a voice to the silenced and to ensure that human rights remain at the forefront of medical discourse. Through MandelNews.com Breaking News Alerts and Daily News Coverage, I provide timely updates on developing human rights stories.
Creative Advocacy: As an author of speculative fiction short stories, I explore these complexities through narrative. My writing serves as a series of cautionary fables, using imaginative storytelling to examine the consequences of institutional overreach and the enduring importance of the human spirit.
MandelNews.com Breaking News Alert
UN Report on the Targeting of Children in Gaza
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently released a devastating new report focusing on the systematic trauma inflicted on the youngest populations in the ongoing conflict.
- The Crisis: The report documents the intense scale of military operations resulting in unprecedented death, mass trauma, starvation, and the compl
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry recently released a devastating new report focusing on the systematic trauma inflicted on the youngest populations in the ongoing conflict.
- The Crisis: The report documents the intense scale of military operations resulting in unprecedented death, mass trauma, starvation, and the complete collapse of healthcare and neonatal infrastructure.
- The Human Rights Impact: The Commission stated that the deliberate targeting and deprivation of essential resources to children constitute severe violations of international law, including war crimes and genocidal intent to erode the foundational structure of the society.
Source: United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
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Daily Holistic Pulse
Reclaiming Mental Health: Why Natural Holistic Care Is the Path Forward
Natural holistic mental healthcare is not an “alternative.” It is the foundation of human well‑being, the birthright of every person, and the path forward for a society that has lost its way. True mental health is built on nourishment, movement, sunlight, rest, purpose, connection, and compassionate support — the simple, powerful elements
Natural holistic mental healthcare is not an “alternative.” It is the foundation of human well‑being, the birthright of every person, and the path forward for a society that has lost its way. True mental health is built on nourishment, movement, sunlight, rest, purpose, connection, and compassionate support — the simple, powerful elements that strengthen the mind and body from within. These are the pillars of wellness that have sustained human beings for generations, and they remain essential today.
A holistic approach recognizes that distress is not a defect. It is a signal — a call for better nutrition, more movement, deeper relationships, safer environments, and meaningful support. When people eat well, exercise regularly, spend time outdoors, nurture friendships, care for pets, and receive empathetic guidance, their emotional resilience grows. Their stress decreases. Their sense of identity and agency returns. This is what real mental healthcare looks like: human‑centered, empowering, and grounded in the lived experience of the whole person.
Many individuals have felt unseen or harmed in systems that rely heavily on labels and interventions that do not address the root causes of suffering. When care becomes rushed, impersonal, or profit‑driven, people are left with stigma instead of support, and with long‑term consequences instead of long‑term healing. These experiences have pushed countless individuals to seek a different path — one that honors their dignity, autonomy, and humanity.
Holistic mental healthcare offers that path. It prioritizes voluntary, person‑centered support. It focuses on lifestyle foundations that strengthen the nervous system and restore balance. It embraces trauma‑informed understanding, community‑based solutions, and compassionate coaching that helps people rebuild their lives without judgment or coercion. It sees the individual not as a diagnosis but as a human being with needs, strengths, and potential.
The future of mental health must be rooted in wellness, not pathology. It must empower people rather than diminish them. It must restore connection rather than isolate. Natural holistic care provides a model of healing that is sustainable, humane, and aligned with the deepest values of human flourishing. This is the vision we stand for: a world where mental health support uplifts, strengthens, and respects every person — and where true wellness is accessible to all.
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Speculative Fiction Short Story
THE LAST REFORMER
Dr. Howy Mandelson had always believed medicine was sacred — a covenant between healer and human. But in New York State, that covenant had been rewritten in the language of profit.
His awakening came the night his brother Nathan, a Wall Street broker with a taste for risk, was dragged from an open‑air rock concert in Central Park. Nathan h
Dr. Howy Mandelson had always believed medicine was sacred — a covenant between healer and human. But in New York State, that covenant had been rewritten in the language of profit.
His awakening came the night his brother Nathan, a Wall Street broker with a taste for risk, was dragged from an open‑air rock concert in Central Park. Nathan had been high on LSD, singing loud, dancing wild — harmless, euphoric. Within hours, two psychiatrists at a teaching hospital labeled him “psychotic,” and a judge signed the papers. Nathan disappeared into a locked ward. When Howy found him weeks later, he was sedated, trembling, and broke — his brokerage license revoked, his accounts frozen, his name flagged in the National Psychiatric Registry.
That was the moment Howy’s medical career changed course. He vowed to reform psychiatry — to expose its economic machinery, its secret courts, its conveyor‑belt justice. He wrote essays, spoke at rallies, and founded the Coalition for Ethical Mental Health. His message was simple: psychiatry had become a business model for oppression.
But reformers attract predators.
At the University Hospital, two men watched Howy’s rise with contempt. Dr. Schuster, a radiologist with a taste for manipulation, loved psychiatry’s subjectivity — it allowed him to distort imaging reports to fit any narrative. Dr. Barrington, a psychiatrist from South Africa, had built his fortune treating patients like specimens — first in apartheid clinics, then in American wards. He saw Howy’s movement as a threat to his empire of compliance.
Together, they plotted.
Schuster falsified scans, claiming Howy showed “frontal‑lobe anomalies consistent with manic delusion.” Barrington filed affidavits describing “grandiose reformist ideation.” Within days, Howy was summoned before a psychiatric court — no jury, no testimony, just two doctors and a judge who nodded through every word.
The order was swift: involuntary inpatient treatment.
Howy’s colleagues vanished. His research grants evaporated. His name became a warning whispered in hospital corridors: Don’t challenge the system.
Inside the ward, fluorescent lights hummed over cracked linoleum. Patients shuffled in medicated silence. Howy tried to write, but his hands shook from the drugs. He watched the city skyline through barred windows — the same skyline that glittered above luxury condos with pools, jacuzzis, and cocktail lounges. He had once dreamed of living there. Now he was a ghost in its shadow.
Months passed. The medications carved tremors into his body. Tardive dyskinesia twisted his face into involuntary grimaces. He could no longer speak clearly, but he whispered to anyone who would listen: “Psychiatry isn’t medicine. It’s economics.”
No one answered.
When he died, the hospital filed the usual report: Complications of chronic schizophrenia. Dr. Schuster billed for radiology review. Dr. Barrington billed for psychiatric oversight. The system profited one last time from the man who tried to dismantle it.
Outside, the city pulsed with wealth and indifference. Nathan walked past the hospital every morning on his way to work at a brokerage firm that had rehired him under a new name. He never looked up.
And somewhere in the archives of the Coalition for Ethical Mental Health, a single line remained from Howy’s final manuscript:
“When medicine becomes a market, healing becomes a crime.”
The Psychiatric Counter-Narrative
THE PROFIT ENGINE OF AMERICAN REPRESSION: HOW THE POWERFUL TURNED PSYCHIATRY INTO A WEAPONIZED MARKETPLACE
There is a truth that America’s political class hopes the public never fully grasps: the psychiatric system they champion is not a humanitarian project, not a medical necessity, and certainly not a public good. It is an economic engine, a profit‑guaranteeing machine, and a political convenience—one that the wealthy and powerful have prote
There is a truth that America’s political class hopes the public never fully grasps: the psychiatric system they champion is not a humanitarian project, not a medical necessity, and certainly not a public good. It is an economic engine, a profit‑guaranteeing machine, and a political convenience—one that the wealthy and powerful have protected for decades because it serves them far better than it serves the people.
The façade of “mental healthcare” is the marketing.
The real product is control.
Across all 50 states, the same pattern repeats: governors, legislators, judges, and entrenched bureaucrats defend a psychiatric apparatus that generates billions in revenue while stripping citizens of rights with breathtaking speed. They defend it because it is lucrative. They defend it because it is politically useful. They defend it because it creates a class of people who can be silenced, discredited, and neutralized without the messiness of constitutional protections.
And the economic incentives are staggering.
Every involuntary commitment order is a billable event.
Every forced outpatient mandate is a revenue stream.
Every “evaluation,” “risk assessment,” and “treatment plan” is a financial transaction.
Psychiatric hospitals profit.
Pharmaceutical companies profit.
Private equity firms that now own large swaths of the behavioral‑health industry profit.
And the judges and politicians who keep the conveyor belt running are rewarded with campaign donations, institutional loyalty, and the quiet elimination of people who disrupt the status quo.
The secretive psychiatric courts—those closed‑door chambers operating outside the constitutional architecture of American justice—are the perfect economic instrument. They are fast. They are opaque. They are unaccountable. And they are designed to produce one outcome: compliance with whatever the psychiatrist requests.
Two doctors speak.
A judge nods.
A life is derailed.
And the system sends out its invoices.
No jury.
No sworn testimony.
No adversarial process.
No public record that might expose the machinery.
This is not a justice system.
It is a financial pipeline disguised as law.
And once a person is pulled into this pipeline, the economic incentives ensure they are never truly free again. Forced drugging orders generate ongoing pharmaceutical revenue. Mandatory outpatient programs guarantee recurring billing. Police and federal agents enforce these civil orders as if they were criminal judgments, ensuring the individual remains trapped in a cycle of surveillance, stigma, and dependency that benefits everyone except the victim.
This is why the political elite defend psychiatry with such ferocity:
because it is profitable,
because it is politically expedient,
and because it creates a subclass of Americans who can be controlled without public scrutiny.
Meanwhile, the public goes about its day—school drop‑offs, morning coffee, office meetings—while an entire shadow system quietly expands beneath their feet. A system that destroys careers, drains bank accounts, fractures families, and pushes people into homelessness, all while generating revenue for the institutions that orchestrate the harm.
This is not a healthcare crisis.
It is an economic regime built on the bodies and futures of the vulnerable.
And until the country confronts the financial incentives that keep this machinery running, the psychiatric system will continue to function exactly as it was designed:
as a profitable instrument of social control, protected by the powerful, enforced by the state, and ignored by a public that has been taught not to look too closely.
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