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Can a Psychiatrist Prescribe Medication?

Doctor On Demand

A psychiatrist is a licensed medical doctor (MD or DO) who specializes in mental health. Here’s a quick comparison of mental health providers and whether they can prescribe medication: Provider Can Prescribe? Offers Therapy?

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Corona Together

StorytellERdoc

Regardless of the severity of a patient's illness and diagnosis, time and again I am now witnessing an unsettling fear in their eyes, conveying a belief that somehow Covid-19 is playing a part in their (lack of) well-being. Don't bog down our front-line medical providers with mild symptoms. They are scared. Wear a mask.

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Social Workers as Leaders on Palliative Care Teams: A Podcast with Barbara Jones

GeriPal

What does this diagnosis mean to you? And so I’ve had an opportunity to participate that at our Livestrong cancer clinic here at Dell Medical School. You begin with psychosocial assessment and care. And you feed the medicine in. So you never don’t have the medicine, but you start with, who are you? Barbara: You do.

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Hospice in Prison Part 1: An interview with Michele DiTomas and Keith Knauf

GeriPal

Because I feel like as a medical provider of taking care of somebody, the man in the hallway, I’ve known that person for 15 years. So we’re designing a program where it won’t matter on what the housing is.

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Sexual Function in Serious Illness: Areej El-Jawahri, Sharon Bober, and Don Dizon

GeriPal

So this is about two and a half, three years out from leukemia diagnosis. And the point of that is that so many people, in my experience, and I’m sure it’s the same initial diagnosis of cancer, that’s the last thing that I want to talk about. And I said, sure. And I had that mortified look on my face of God.

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