Helen Yu MD MPH

Mental health, medicine, health care reform, social justice, education, behavioral economics, policy

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@AlyssaJoyJaffee Yes! I have unfortunately been shocked at how brazen some people can be. Throwing this back...what questions in retrospect would you have asked?

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

Thank you @DrPanMD for all your contributions to the house of medicine, public health and California as a whole. It was quite an honor meeting you at #cmaHOD this year.

[California Medical Association @CMAdocs]

You will be missed, @DrPanMD! "If Dr. Pan has indeed earned the title of vaccine hero now, as Time magazine named him, he got there because of what he learned in community health centers about standing up for people who couldn’t speak for themselves." https://t.co/Yp87DbxTAA

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

In 1974 country singer Bobbie Gentry said "'Fancy' is my strongest statement for women's lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for--equality, equal pay, day care centers and abortion rights."

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@healthcareandy Behavioral nudges 'work' on a population level. But you need a large N to see the effects. The effects an any particular individual are not necessarily discernable or meaningful

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@healthcareandy Or that vaccine development is grinding to a halt The End of Vaccines at ‘Warp Speed’ https://t.co/7rFFbkmdY9

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

Heard a mind boggling statistic today: only 20% of behavioral health providers take insurance. That means 80% DO NOT participate in insurance plans.
Theories on why? #behavioralhealth
#mentalhealthparity #MentalHealthMatters
Source: https://t.co/EjZryY9pMV by @FoleyandLardner

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@grahamwalker Or time answering those kind of questions = time I don't get to spend with family, or just eat my lunch in peace, or get my recommended amount of daily exercise

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@grahamwalker Right and time is $

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@grahamwalker 3) physicians should be compensated directly for doing this work. It cannot simply be added on to our duties. We need either time carved out or additional recompense.

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@grahamwalker Having been on the receiving end, as well as having sent some of those messages myself, I think there's a few issues going on here:

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@grahamwalker 2) some questions are just too complicated to address via messaging and require telephone, video or in person appt to address.

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@Ask_Tia I hope they have special training on women's mental health, ie. PMDD, peripartum, TTC. Many fully fledged psychiatrists aren't comfortable or knowledgeable about these conditions.

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@Ask_Tia who (i.e. level of training) provides mental health medications for your patients?

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

How is this happening is America? 😳🤯😱 https://t.co/nmSNz3CSXs

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@choo_ek @ChrisCuomo @CNN thanks for speaking up on this!

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@DrGailSaltz Looking forward to it!

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@DrGailSaltz I've really enjoyed listening to your personology podcast and hope that you will make more episodes!

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@choo_ek Even though I work in mental health, it still took me a hot second to post this reply. I had to fight the inner voices saying "what if your future employers find out about this!"

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

@choo_ek I'm a psychiatrist and I've taken antidepressants to help me through some hard times during medical school and residency. I continue to go to therapy, and this experience of working on my own mental health has also helped me in so many ways, including to be a better doctor.

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

Change needs to start at the top, with those that shape the culture of medicine, and who have power to change the underlying structural issues within medicine 6/ #doctors #covidwarriors #physicianburnout #MentalHealthMatters

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

https://t.co/ZqzsjjSSRH touching narrative that exposes "the culture within the medical community that makes suffering easy to overlook or hide; the trauma that doctors comfortably diagnose, but are reluctant to personally reveal, for fear of ruining their careers." 1/

[Helen Yu MD MPH @Helen2007yu]

It's an unsustainable strain that leads to doctor burnout, and can lead to doctors losing touch with the humanity within themselves and their patients. Which can them perpetuate medical disparities when doctors see patients as separate 'others' from themselves. 5/