Garth Kroeker

a discussion about psychiatry, mental illness, emotional problems, and things that help

Monday, May 30, 2016

Rhetoric and Jargon in Health Care Policy, Part 2: "Evidence Based"

These days we often hear about how a new treatment, or program, or therapy style, is "evidence based." This gives the listener an...

Monday, May 2, 2016

Rhetoric and Jargon in Health Care Policy, Part One: "Stakeholders"

Jargon bothers me. It re duces the enjoyment and engagement we have with lan guage . It can be a barrier for others to even understan...

Tuesday, April 26, 2016

E-Mental Health

The whole issue of e-mental health induces quite a bit of resistance in me, which causes me to pause and reflect. The issue perhaps repres...

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Stimulant Medications for treating ADHD: A comparison

ADHD medication is a big business in the world today. Annual sales of ADHD medication are projected to be 15-20 billion dollars by 2020, in...

Friday, February 19, 2016

Do Higher Doses of Antidepressants Work Better?

It is common practice in psychiatry to increase the dose of an antidepressant if the standard dose is not helping enough. Sometimes doses a...

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About Me

GK: I've been a psychiatrist since July, 2000. Most of my clinical experience has been with university students who have come to my outpatient clinic. For the first two years of my practice, I completed a subspecialty fellowship in mood disorders, during which I was trying to help patients struggling with treatment-resistant depression or bipolar disorder. I enjoy trying to combine ideas from different fields within the sciences and humanities--I love the idea of a creative, collaborative, interdisciplinary, yet also evidence-based approach to thinking about the mind, about medicine, and about life. I particularly like to indulge in metaphor and use analogies as a part of my therapeutic style. Yet, I find that much of my work as a physician can be simple and pragmatic, and I believe that there often can be straightforward medical solutions to many of the ailments my patients tell me about.

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