Dr. Mel Houser
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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Yeah, yeah.
I think like one of the things that that reminds me of, you know, for the patients we serve at All Brains Belong, not everyone is neurodivergent or identifies as neurodivergent, but what they did have in common is that their needs were not met by the traditional healthcare system.
And amongst that group, what they also had in common was a pattern of medical conditions, a pattern of intertwined medical conditions that they always felt were connected.
But because of the healthcare system, the constraints of the healthcare system, you must see patients every 10 to 15 minutes, et cetera, et cetera, really gets in the way of clinicians addressing multiple problems at a time.
And the big picture doesn't get identified.
And so why that really matters is that so patients, you know, we've got the stresses from the environment, the trauma from past encounters.
We've got the person, the professional who is dysregulated themselves often not having their access needs met by the system.
The system thwarts everyone.
And that's, I think, a really important factor in patients not getting what they need.
And so why I brought that up is because when you say that, not only is this imbalance of, I am expert, you are paid, whatever, it's really shifting that it's really, I'm your guide and you are the expert in your body.
And what is it like to empower people to understand their health within the context of everything being connected to everything that
When patients have a unified narrative to understand their health and their lives, that makes such a profound difference and really shifting that power dynamic of
you're the expert patients.
And how are we going to come together as a community health village to better understand this constellation of intertwined medical problems?
And so that's what we did.
We knew that these medical conditions were more common in autistic and ADHD people.
We didn't know that 97% of the autistic and ADHD teens and adults would have this constellation, 97%.
I mean, it's almost everybody.
And so we learned that by learning from our patients.
And so we formed a task force of
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