It’s a pace that is difficult for psychiatrists to keep up with, says Dr. Bev Young, a perinatal psychiatrist in Toronto. The pandemichas made things worse, with many choosing to leave patient care — to care for themselves. Dr. Paul Kurdyak, a research lead at CAMH and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, says that more mental-health care should be provided by family doctors. Kurdyak sees team-based models of care, that include psychiatrists, family doctors and other health-care professionals, as the best way to enable more patients to receive mental-health care. “We have a long way to go on mental-health care in Canada,” says Kurdyak.

Source: thestar January 16, 2022 00:53 UTC