Khameer Kidia
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465 appearances
1 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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You know, primary
Care doctors are seeing how chronic illness is the embodiment of so many of the social and political problems in people's lives.
And they're also seeing the ways that mental distresses intertwine with chronic illness.
You know, people who are chronically ill are more likely to be depressed, and people who are depressed are more likely to be chronically ill, and they operate in this vicious cycle.
And primary care doctors are the people who are dealing.
With this, which is why 80% of SSRI prescriptions are written in the primary care setting.
Sometimes I was even able to help her structurally, like I was able to fill out some forms that helped to get um housing in the same housing block that her mother was living in, subsidized government housing.
And that also is a role that we have in medicine as gatekeepers, a social political gatekeeping role that we should never undermine.
That as a type of care that we can do.
A lot of primary care doctors, a lot of doctors in general say things like, that's not my job.
I'm here to deal with the medicine.
But it is our job.
And this went on for a couple of years.
We had these appointments, these hour-long appointments.
And then one day, Alice walked into my office and she had this huge smile on her face, and she said, Doc,
You won't believe this.
I've stopped fainting.
And I'll never know exactly why.
You know, you can't point to any one thing.
I can't say that it was the housing.
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