Doctors can consultwith a “behavioral health specialist” on the phone—during the office visit, ifnecessary—and link the patient or family with a network of mentalhealth careprofessionals.
There are others. I'm a patient, a client, a mentalhealth service user.
还有些别的,如我是个病人,我是个医院的常客,一个精神健康服务的用户。
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Despite this growing patient population, however, mentalhealth care accounted for a declining percentage of new Medicare spending in that same time period.