Dr. Eric Bender

And I think that should be it.

When it's not the patients, that's a problem.

Then go off and do whatever it is you want to do that's not patient-related.

But I think the fame of the psychiatrist, if it comes into the room, it's part of the therapy.

What is it about this person wanting to be treated by me?

Or if they say, I saw you in a video and I'll say, Oh, you know what?

I'm curious what brought you from seeing the video to calling me?

What was it?

And if it seems like, Oh, I just wanted to see your real person.

I am.

So I think that that can be a problem.

The other thing is for the psychiatrist to realize a lot of people might reach out to you as a result of this.

If people are really in distress, you have to have some way of just reacting in a blanket wide way of saying, if you're in distress, I can't give medical advice to anybody, only my patients.

So please realize that if you're reaching out to me in distress, I'm concerned about you, but I can't actually follow up with you.

And even if you're not in distress, I can't follow up with everybody and offer advice.

And it's not because I'm being a terrible person.

I just legally can't.

And I'm actually focused on the patients in my practice too.

I think it's, well, that's where I was going.

It's like, well, does it really matter?