Garth Kroeker

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

Monday, January 11, 2021

COVID-19, Psychiatry, and Politics: an update and reflection on 2020

COVID-19 update January 2021 I come to this issue as a psychiatrist. I am not an infectious disease specialist, immunologist, virologist, ...

Saturday, July 18, 2020

BC COVID-19 Update, July 18, 2020

The management of the pandemic in BC has been very successful, thanks to everyone's hard work and sacrifice over the past months. Some...

Tuesday, May 26, 2020

15 Average Years of Life Lost for each COVID-19 death

The following is a very rough estimate, which would be subject to refinement or correction, but I believe it is reasonably accurate. ...

Saturday, May 2, 2020

Why strict social distancing and massively increased testing are important to solve the COVID-19 problem

There are various clear arguments about why social distancing is important in managing the pandemic. Most would agree that obviously dist...

Sunday, April 5, 2020

COVID-19 update April 5 2020

The main advice about COVID-19 is just the same as before: very strict social distancing (stay at least 2 metres, or 6 feet away from other...

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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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