Garth Kroeker

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

Friday, September 16, 2016

Mental Health Care Triage

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What is Triage? "Triage" is a term used in medicine, referring to the process of deciding the order in which patients should be ...
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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Electronic Health Records (EHR)

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Electronic health records allow for a variety of improvements in medical practice and health care: Communication between physicians c...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

Psychiatrists diagnosing public figures

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I was reading an article today discussing the ethical problems involved when psychiatrists or psychologists apply a psychiatric diagnostic l...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

Sugar and Mental Health

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There are a lot of people who make dietary recommendations.  It can be hard to figure out whom to believe. There is a huge amount of money...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Algorithms in Psychological Health Care

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On the one hand, I see the value of having general guidelines for health care providers to follow.  But on the other hand, I see that ther...
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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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