The Medical Futurist

JUNE 2, 2025

The title, Drugs vs. DTx, is a classic case of the “it’s complicated” relationship status. But there is another upside: it allows a certain kind of privacy, bringing treatments to the patients’ homes, and removing stigmas typically connected to a number of therapies, either in substance abuse care or in mental health.

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GeriPal

MARCH 9, 2023

Psilocybin, the most commonly used psychedelic, increases heart rate and blood pressure, which may potentially lead to cardiovascular events. It’s broader than just psychedelic assisted psychotherapy because there’s non-psychotherapists often involved, and it’s different from what we do in conventional mental health.

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Maine Academy of Family Physicians

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Between routine care, medication management, and patients who opened up about their mental health struggles, it was clear that a strong baseline of trust had been established. At the Family Medicine office, I observed the close relationships fostered between Dr. Der Simonian and her patients.

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GeriPal

JULY 11, 2024

We get a bit of, in the veteran population, kind of a mix of a lot of mental health issues thrown into these comorbid illnesses, including cirrhosis, but it’s usually the decompensated cirrhotics or the folks with liver cancer and cirrhosis, or one of both. They are complicated. Amy 12:23 I find this one.

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Usually events open up some insight into the person themselves as they’re describing the suffering. With the mental health, we pulled out the medical model. I mean, one is the brilliance of your question, when suffering comes up, to asking people to tell you more.

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GeriPal

MARCH 6, 2025

And this is really traumatic event for his street family and the street community that he knew. It might have to do with a sensitivity around mental health. And I remember getting to the shelter the next day after meeting him early and not finding him anywhere and learning later that he had died overnight.

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Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 19, 2025

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. Has anyone noticed that we have sort of a global mental health problem in the world right now? I give you Dr. Pamela Wible.

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