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No Stigma Nevada: The ‘Talk’ Everybody Needs To Have –By Kim Palchikoff- Watching the horrific May 25 police murder of African-American George Floyd replayed again and again on video and the weeks-long protests and riots in Nevada and across the world reminds me of “the talk” my father gave me …
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No Stigma Nevada- Carson City therapist: How to deal with stress and despair -By Kim Palchikoff. As the COVID-19 pandemic death toll reaches nearly 100,000 in the U.S. and continues to rise, as do the numbers of unemployed, living with fear, anxiety, stress and even despair has become the new …
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No Stigma Nevada It’s the worst time to skimp on mental-health resources By Kim Palchikoff Mental Health Awareness Month arrives this year with Nevada facing a crisis it has failed to handle in the past and remains ill-prepared to deal with now. You don’t need to read reports and statistics …
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No-Stigma Nevada “Curbside Nevada: A helpline for doctors, by doctors.” -As told to Kim Palchikoff by Dr. Lesley Dickson, a psychiatrist for 34 years. Often medical personnel treating patients with COVID-19 experience enormous psychological stress. In late April, 14 Nevada psychiatrists, including three from Reno, established “Curbside Nevada,” a …
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No Stigma Nevada –By Kim Palchikoff Former Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa: Optimism, a return to normalcy and cleaning the refrigerator Most Nevadans know Frankie Sue Del Papa as the Silver State’s first female Attorney General. But there’s a lot Nevadans don’t know about the former Democratic Party …
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No Stigma Nevada: When the coronavirus ends, your marriage doesn’t have to -By Kim Palchikoff Note: Several Nevada marriage and family therapists collaborated on this piece. Stay-at-home orders are proving helpful in the struggle against the fatal coronavirus, but such severe isolation can wreak havoc on marriages and other cohabitational …
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No-Stigma Nevada: Obamacare can be fixed. Here’s where to start. By Kim Palchikoff As an Affordable Care Act participant, I expect last month’s long-awaited court ruling will have some serious consequences for me. The problem is, I have no idea how. There have been many rulings on …
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No-Stigma Nevada: When General Practitioners Pass Out the Prozac. By Kim Palchikoff Most patients don’t choose their primary care physician based on their doctor’s knowledge of mental health. Usually they ask whether the physician is taking new patients and accepts their insurance. But for Nevada, a state with a notoriously severe …
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It’s all about the cash: Modern Psychiatry in Nevada No-Stigma Nevada by Kim Palchikoff Las Vegas is known around the world for a lot of things— blackjack, booze, bikini-clad pool parties. And cash. Lots and lots of cash. And there are doctors in town — psychiatrists, to be specific — who will …
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No Stigma Nevada: A column about Nevada’s mental health. My Dog, My Life -By Kim Palchikoff I’m one of those people who takes a dog just about everywhere. I hope you’re OK with that. But maybe when you see us coming, you are annoyed if not downright angry. …
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