Title: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated : NPR
Headings: Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Mental Illness Cases Go Untreated
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Content: He was not sleeping well. He wasn't functioning well at work. And the last time I saw him, we explicitly talked about that. I said, `You know, we need to talk about this maybe being depression.' And it took me, all together--it was the last visit of the day. It took me about 45 minutes to chat with him, to help him understand what I was seeing, and to get him to sort of grudgingly agree that he would start back on an anti-depressant medication. SILBERNER: Klinkman's academic studies at the University of Michigan investigate how primary doctors deal with mental illness. In a study of doctors in Michigan, he found that they did a pretty good job. Dr. KLINKMAN: