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Can a Psychiatrist Prescribe Medication?

Doctor On Demand

If you’re considering mental health treatment, you may be wondering: can a psychiatrist prescribe medication? A psychiatrist is a licensed medical doctor (MD or DO) who specializes in mental health. Our licensed mental health providers are available 7 days a week, including evenings and weekends.

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Normalcy, Introspection, & the Experience of Serious Illness: Bill Gardner, Juliet Jacobsen, and Brad Stuart

GeriPal

He studies the mental health system in the ways in which it has failed children and adolescents, and he writes about his experience with cancer in a blog, the Billgardner.substack.com, Billgardner, one word. So she had them early in diagnosis and then a little bit later. Today we talk with deep thinkers about this issue.

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Transgender Health, Aging, and Advocacy: A Podcast with Noelle Marie Javier and Jace Flatt

GeriPal

And so there’s one study that used Medicare beneficiary data, and when they look at diagnoses for transgender men and women compared to cisgender men and women, we see around one in five have a diagnosis of dementia in the medical record for the transgender community compared to around, like, 1 in 7, 1 in 8 versus gender people.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Well, Haider has an intimate relationship with pain, having experienced chronic pain himself and now having dove deep into the latest research on pain for his new book The Song of Our Scars: The Untold Story of Pain. . We’re going to be talking about pain and your book. It was actually in the first draft of the book.

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Guiding an Improved Dementia Experience (GUIDE) Model: A Podcast with Malaz Boustani and Diane Ty

GeriPal

Too many people do because it’s really hard to keep their loved ones at home for the cost, the enormous financial, mental and physical strain for the family. There’s a book called The 36-hour day for dementia caregivers. With your journey, with your dad’s journey- Diane: They could have diagnosed him earlier.

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Keynote: Finding your bliss—beating physician “burnout”

Pamela Wible MD

And now what we have all been waiting for, our keynote speaker on today’s theme of mental health. I think it’s a label that people turn to because of mental health stigma. Yeah my life totally sucked because I was double booked. I give you Dr. Pamela Wible. Dr. Pamela Wible soon discovered why.

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‘We Need To Keep Fighting’: HIV Activists Organize To Save Lives as Trump Guts Funding

Physician's Weekly

It had clawed back more than $11 billion in federal public health grants to states and abruptly terminated millions of dollars in funds for HIV work in the United States. Testing and outreach for HIV faltered in the South , a region that accounts for more than half of all HIV diagnoses.