How Is Your 'Zoom-side Manner'?

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How Is Your 'Zoom-side Manner'?

Drew Ramsey, MD

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October 27, 2020

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Hi. I'm Dr Drew Ramsey, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a member of the Medscape Psychiatry editorial board. Welcome back to the Brain Food vlog. Today I want to check in with you about Zoom-side manner.

Everyone saw the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's data from June that 40% of Americans are reporting at least one adverse mental or behavioral health condition and, most concernedly, 11% of Americans are seriously considering suicide. We're going to be very much in demand as a profession, so we're going to have to be as good or better than we've ever been before.

When we first started quarantine during the COVID-19 pandemic, I released a videoencouraging you to engage in telepsychiatry. This was not only because we had to, but also as a challenge to see if we could be better given that we've always had this bias that telepsychiatry isn't as good. I had some tips in there that we can now all admit weren't great. For example, I recommended using noise-canceling headphones. However, after a few months of wearing my own headphones, my ears started to hurt (although perhaps your ears aren't as big as mine).

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