Your physician and I, alongside yourself, can work together to help you manage both your physical and emotional health.
Staying healthy through exercise, good food and sleep is important. But we also need to learn how to cope with the many stressors that are in our life. Sometimes our coping mechanisms create problems resulting in anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, phobias, withdrawal and destructive behaviors. We would work together to better manage our tendencies so that we can find healthier ways to manage our life.
I have worked at NYU Langone with Primary care physicians towards integration of care. This resulted in more satisfied patients, saved both physician and patient time and money due to less repeat visits for non-medical issues and helped the patient feel that they were taken care of both physically and emotionally.