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“Drugs are prescribed [at UHS] without patients being in talk therapy or a suggestion of restructuring the way they live life,” Quinn says. “No matter how great a drug is, if you go home to a place with no one to...
When students initially call UHS for an appointment, they are given a triage interview by phone, in which clinicians determine who the student should first see—a prescribing clinician or one focused on therapy, Kadison says.
Kadison says UHS began this system one and half years ago in order to get students on a fast track to care as soon as they express interest in getting help. While previously a student would have to wait for an hour-long appointment slot before their first contact with...
Katherine T. Kleindienst ’05 says she was diagnosed with depression after 20 minutes of triage, then spoke to a nurse practitioner for about an hour and walked out of UHS with a prescription for the anti-depressant Lexapro.
Hyman, who chairs the UHS executive committee says that prescribing medication to a student after an hour’s evaluation is a legitimate medical practice.