NPR Health - Shots

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with journalist Rachel Aviv about her book, "Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories that Make Us." It explores the lives of six people with mental illness.

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Common Sense Family Doctor

MARCH 18, 2025

The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation caused by public health measures to slow its spread exacerbated a mismatch between the need for mental health care and the number of professionals trained to provide that care. The first few chapters discuss the problems with mental health care in the U.S.

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Doctor On Demand

JUNE 2, 2025

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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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 18, 2025

Doctors have little time to process their trauma Doctors are exposed to intense suffering—child abuse, domestic violence, terminal diagnoses, and death. Since many states ask invasive mental health questions on license applications, physicians fear being labeled “unfit” to practice. How can we improve physician mental health?

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GeriPal

AUGUST 31, 2023

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. I just love her conclusion because what she realizes is when you’re first diagnosed… This is research.

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GeriPal

JUNE 19, 2025

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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GeriPal

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I began to think about the training that I had and that there was no mental health condition that was diagnosed. Really, only thing that I think was really in the biomedical health services literature at that time was probably Carla’s paper on loneliness.

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