By Dr. Nick van Terheyden aka Dr. Nick
Twitter: @drnic1
Host of Dr. Nick: The Incrementalist – #TheIncrementalist
On this episode I talked to Bob Booth MD, Chief Care Officer at TimelyCare (@TimelyMD) a company offering a student-centered platform that is designed for digital natives of on-demand access to mental health and medical care. Bob’s path informed his role and focus starting out in education, training to be a doctor and anesthesiologist and ultimately ending back in education delivering critical support services to a population that is experiencing record levels of stress and declining brain health.
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We discuss the jaw-dropping statistics of the state of the minds of our younger generation especially those in higher education where 8 out of 10 students tell us that there is a full-blown mental health crisis going on on their campus. with the brain (aka Mental) health is the number one reason why students abandon their academic goals when they quit and leave school. Importantly Bob focuses on the positive framing of these data and the importance of understanding that we cannot staff our way out of this, we could dump buckets of money into training into increasing compensation, to try to address the supply and demand mismatch but this will not solve the problem.
Rather we must think about this differently capitalizing on work done in the UK and the NHS that remains a cornerstone of these approaches where resources are constrained how do we improve care, while I have less money to do this? The good news is it is possible with the addition of alternative approaches, enablement, and technology
Listen in to hear Bob discussing the approach to looking backward to learn and forward to innovate and create a future world that we all want to live in.
This article was originally published on the Dr. Nick – The Incrementalist blog and is republished here with permission.
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