My reflections on working with suicidal patients: Jacob Schonberg, Peer Support Specialist, UNC Wake ACT I have been working in community mental health for the last 13 years, 11 of them with ACT teams.  In that time, I’ve taken many different trainings, on a variety of subjects, from a variety of trainers with different skills … Read more

Reflections on working with suicidal patients: Laura McDaniel, UNC Wakebrook FBC Clinical Supervisor I work on a psychiatric crisis unit. A large proportion of the patients I work with are actively thinking about suicide. I work with people who come to us on their own because they are trying to listen to that small part … Read more

It is hard to have a conversation about medicine during the COVID-19 pandemic and not discuss telehealth.  Telehealth (broadly defined as the delivery of clinical and nonclinical health services using telecommunications technology) use has skyrocketed at the onset of the pandemic, with some estimates suggesting telehealth utilization in Medicare beneficiaries increasing nearly 13,000% over pre-pandemic … Read more

Often, it is the most difficult times that lead to the bursts of energy that will lift us out of our despair, but also move us toward a more fruitful and fulfilling path.  The past eighteen months have not been an exception of course. From the personal and collective anxiety and mourning the world is … Read more