Doctors are generally not subject to malpractice suits for engaging in what was believed to be the best practice at the time. That's how it should be, because that's how science works.

We electroshocked and then lobotomized the patient, they're basically a 4 year old now mentally, but thats all fine because the science at the time said so.

We smoked in our office consults with pregnant women, but thats all fine because science said so at the time.

... Uh, nah, no, at least from a morality perspective.

So, so much tangible quantifiable financial damage done to so many people by sideffects and then meds for those sideffects...

Legally, yeah, maybe not malpractice if ... thats the actual legal standard, maybe it falls on the drug mfgrs legally, but uh what ever happened to harm reduction, is it now maybe time to have some kind of actual reckoning with this as a field/industry?

To me, at this point, in the US, psychiatrists are basically very snobby and arrogant drug salesmen, who will confidently tell you they know what they're doing and then oops turns out they don't.

Your second paragraph illustrates this perfectly.

Don't even have a method of assessing how any of this should work.

Just no clue, none, might as well be popping random pills at a rave, nearly the same epistemic level of 'will this do what the person i got it from said it will', difference being stuff from a psych is very unlikely to be cut.

This is is mad scientist level shit.

15% chance it works, 85% chance it doesn't, you're all experimental test subjects actually who were not informed of that.

I dunno about you but I don't tend to trust people who tell me to do something and tell me its all very well understood, and then oh haha, no it isn't.

I had MDD for a while and my psychs ran me through an ever increasing gauntlet of drugs for it that justade everything worse and worse, to the point I now have them all listed as things I am allergic to, turns out I just needed less stress and pressurr in my life and to get away from my abusive family.

This should be a nationwide scandal.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db528.htm

Roughly 1 in 10 people in the US are on anti-depressants, ... and for 85% of them, that can basically only be neutral to harmful.

Maybe revoke all these things as approved treatments and move them back to the experimental trials phase, stop using about 30 million people as test subjects, and also lying about that?