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: Dr. KLINKMAN: It makes more sense for me financially, if I'm being paid in typical ways, to see six or seven people with sore throats in an hour than treat people with depression. SILBERNER: But many patients want to be treated by their primary care doctors, like Bob, who didn't want us to use his last name. He's a patient of Dr. Klinkman. BOB (Patient): It would have been a much bigger deal for me if I had to make an appointment at a mental health clinic, go there and start from the beginning with someone like that rather than just seeing the opportunity to talk about it with someone maybe I already knew for a few years, who's been treating me for a lot of other things. SILBERNER: And even with that, Bob says he delayed going to Dr. Klinkman for a year after his symptoms appeared. Joanne Silberner, NPR News.