Glenn,
I wrote to support your point, defend it, and agree with it in its
entirety. Are you incapable of understanding that? Read my post once more.
Step aside from your paranoid spiral of unending argumentativeness, and
accept friendly support and agreement for a change. Cheers,
-- Tony West
There is no clinically logical way to improve health care if we can't
integrate behavioral & mental health with physiological health at the
gatekeeper level. The divide between these fields is fluid. A good
medical gatekeeper should be fairly paid to make all proper referrals,
without regard for outmoded clinical categories that treat patients with
chemical overdoses as separate from patients with depressions, patients
with liver cirrhosis as separate from patients with alcohol dependency.
-- Tony West
Neighbors,
I was going to ignore West, but the issue is too important. Using a
multi-disciplinary approach in a primary care setting has many potential
benefits. No one has suggested that doctor's can't now address underlying
causes of major disease, as West suggests. And it's a ridiculous distraction
to assert that doctors wouldn't refer an alcoholic to treatment or not order a
psych evaluation after a suicide attempt. Tony is just being Tony.
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