What is concierge medical care? What is boutique care? What is direct primary care or personalized care? These are all euphemisms for paying directly for your care and not going through an insurance provider. This allows for the patient and no other party to have control of the healthcare encounter. These concierge care practices are…
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Are you a real man? Irrational fears and insecurities
In the grand scheme of mental health problems the fear of being naked is not topping any charts. However, there seems to be a growing epidemic based on my own experience and reports in general media that some “men” are either afraid or highly uncomfortable being naked around other men. Modern Western culture seems to…
Man Therapy: Heal or get off the couch!
Dr. Raymond Zakhari, NP The average male much less an alpha male is not going to eagerly lie on a stranger’s couch and discuss their feelings. Feelings for many men are a tactile sensation commonly experienced through the use of their largest organ (the skin). Most men characterize health in terms of function and form. …
Filed Under: Addiction, Medical House Calls, Men’s Health, Mind & Body, Psychiatric House Calls, Psychiatry
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Pharmacogenomics Testing
What is pharmacogenomics? Pharmacogenomics uses information about your individual genetic makeup to help your doctor choose medications and medication doses (pharmacology) that are most likely to work best for you. The use of pharmacogenomics testing helps reduce the traditional trial and error treatment done in traditional psychiatry. When you take a medication your liver releases…
The cultural dissonance of becoming a man
“It is not the critical counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who enters,…
Who should have their head examined?
Dr. Raymond Zakhari, NP In the city where everything delivers your psychiatric mental health care can be delivered as well. The services of a House Call Psychiatrist is intended to meet the patient right at their level of need. Many people avoid psychiatric care because of perceived stigmas or judgment of what other people might…
Are you a tight ass? What does your pelvic floor say about your mental health and well-being?
Muscles in all areas of our bodies, including the pelvic floor, have the potential to be affected by emotional forces. Pleasurable experiences and emotions tend to relax, energize, or expand us while non-pleasurable ones tend to make us tense up, contract, and perhaps depress us. Most of the time these reactions are transient, just as…
Screening questions to ask yourself prior to getting married:
Does she fly into rages without warning over relatively trivial matters like a web page loading too slowly? Are you always the scapegoat/bad guy whenever she’s frustrated, disappointed or just plain bored? Do her friends (that is, if she has any) describe her as a “drama queen?” Does she describe herself as a drama queen?…
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Who is who in healthcare: What do all the letters mean?
Raymond Zakhari, DNP, EdM, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC, SAFE There are many differently credentialed individuals that work in health care. Often times it is not clear by the name badge or the uniform what the person actually does or is supposed to do. This post will hopefully shed some light on the subject. Let me first…
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Having your head examined?
By Dr. Raymond Zakhari, NP So, you have been told maybe you should speak to someone? Your doctors cannot seem to find anything wrong with you? Your friends and family say you are not acting like your normal self. Seeing a psychiatrist or mental health care provider can be quite a distressing experience. A psychiatrist…
