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How Retail Mental Health Could Be Medicine’s Next Frontier

August 16, 2018

Via: Forbes
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Throughout his residency and his last three years as a physician in psychiatry training at Mather Hospital in New York, Dr. Tamir Aldad saw upfront how thousands of mental health patients each year were sent home from the emergency room knowing they might not get follow-up treatment for several weeks.

Despite the urgency of care needed amid the nation’s opioid epidemic and related mental health crisis, millions of Americans like the patients Aldad sees are treated first in an ER, but often aren’t able to see a psychiatrist even after being screened for anything from substance abuse or phobias to PTSD or potential risk of self-harm.

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