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Primary care providers increasingly addressing mental health concerns

Primary care clinicians have become more involved in treating mental health concerns due to the high prevalence of mental health diagnoses in conjunction with ongoing mental health specialists shortages, Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA, medical director of population health at the Primary Care Center of Excellence and a primary care physician in the division of general internal medicine and primary care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and colleagues wrote in Health Affairs.

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