Incident Report

It’s no surprise that mental and emotional health are directly related to physical disease. Here’s what we can do about it, starting with primary care. Lucy McBride, MD, is a practicing internist in Washington, DC, with two decades of experience. A trusted and recognized voice in patient care, she is also a Bloomberg New Voices fellow, a healthcare educator, mental health advocate and healthcare disruptor working to increase awareness of the intersection of mental and physical health. She is Princeton, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins trained. Learn more about her and sign up for her awesome newsletter here. Follow her on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, & Instagram. Full video here.   Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro: Mental health and its connection to overall health 6:34 The nature of the mind-body connection 12:24 Re-personalized, re-humanized medicine and a patient example from Dr. McBride 14:47 The mental health toll from COVID-19, our response to COVID-19 and its impact, and well-intentioned public health messaging