Doctor Mike

Yeah.

Have you seen within some of your patients

emotional or mental health symptoms start taking a toll on their physical body.

Yeah.

What's the reception like from patients on that?

I wonder if it's perhaps different for you because they're coming to see you already accepting of the fact, or at least open to the fact that they're discussing their mental health.

But when they're coming to see their primary care doctor for an elbow pain and their mental health is brought up, I face a lot of reluctance.

When a person is having a struggle, whether it's physical pain related or let's say mental health related for this example, who should they reach out to first?

There's so many options these days from a social worker perspective, life coach, therapist, psychiatrist.

What should one do?

If you're seeing a psychologist, is there ever a world where they say, we think you may be a good candidate for medication?

I like to be the quarterback of my patient's care as a primary care doctor.

So when I send a patient to a subspecialist, I'm doing it in the sense of you know something that I don't know because it's very complex case.

or you do a procedure that I cannot do or have the equipment to do.

So I expect to get some sort of report or at least a chart message, something to know what is the plan so that me and the patient can meet again and discuss it.

And that is a dying art these days of having that level of communication.

So we talked about the different varieties of mental health help you can get.

What about these online better helps?

Got it.

So that's in the AI space.