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70. Navy Veteran and Med Student Tells All: How Far Has Institutional Capture Gone in 2023? with Sarah

You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist

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The Importance of Mental Well-Being

One of the biggest concerns that I have to is that we are starting to hyperfocus on these issues at the expense of so many other patients who are deserving of a focus on their mental well-being. For example, whenever you do have patients concerned with gender dysphoria, everything is focused on protecting their mental health and being sensitive to those issues. But having worked in a lot of other areas in the hospital, I don't see that kind of care taken for other patients going through horrifically traumatic events. That's just not my purview. We all deal with traumas, we all have horrific things that we're dealing with. And everyone is deserving of this kind of care.

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