“Medical care only accounts for 10-20% of our overall health and the other 80-90% is somewhat our genes and what’s happening in the rest of our lives outside clinical care,” said Dr. Kelli Harding.
Menopause is a vulnerable time, that can mean “saying goodbye to your reproductive self,” said Dr. Catherine Monk, and that reminder could, for example, bring on memories of prior assault.
Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman says health care is unlike any other business “it’s the business of life” and treating health care advertising the same as any other industry conflates patients and consumers.
The CUCARD Westchester Anxiety Day Program, located in Tarrytown, New York, provides daily, comprehensive treatment for adolescents whose lives are severely impaired by anxiety or OCD.
"We've known that there's a strong association between gender minority stress and poor health outcomes," Dr. William Byne said. "This just makes it a little bit more concrete."
Dr. William Byne, said that conversion therapy is especially harmful to children, who “should be building a foundation based on resilience and self-esteem.”
