Washington state has about 600 practicing psychiatrists, but only about 50 live outside of the Seattle and Spokane areas. But a novel approach started about eight years ago at the UW, where Seattle-based psychiatrists act as expert consultants to primary care providers all over the state could make a difference said Jürgen Unützer, MD, MPH, MA.
Mental health treatment’s new frontier: telepsychiatry
Yakima Herald | June 6, 2015