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 i believe stanford instituted a policy a few years ago of trying to treat athletes in house rather than encourage them, as they encourage non-athlete students, to use their health insurance to see docs in the community. this can of course create problems if you don't have enough available docs that the patient likes.

I had missed earlier the report quoting Catlin's father stating that Stanford did not do enough to help his daughter. Looks like part of the issue was probably that Catlin was not a Stanford athlete, so maybe there was a question of whether those on staff who work with Stanford athletes should/could see her. (Neither Stanford nor the docs have commented, as far as I know.) Interesting that the NYTImes article elides over this pretty much completely.


From that earlier report (I don't have access to the Chronicle, where I believe it was first published, but here's the Daily's summary of what Catlin's father Mark has said):

 After Kelly’s previous suicide attempt and week-long hospital stay in January, Mark said, she was unable to see her preferred campus sports psychiatrist, Francesco Dandekar, because he was backlogged with cases until May.

Dandekar has not responded to The Daily’s request for comment.

Due to Dandekar’s unavailability, Kelly’s personal coach and University of Michigan professor Stephen McGregor recommended another campus sports psychiatrist. But Stanford barred Kelly from seeing this doctor, according to Mark and McGregor, because the doctor is contracted to work with varsity athletes, and Kelly did not compete on a Stanford team.

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/03/29...her-death/

My wife is a therapist, and she read these articles at my prompting.  She was perplexed by the family's insistence that Kelly see a sports psychiatrist.  Any trained therapist (and surely any psychiatrist) should be able to assist someone suffering from depression regardless of the cause.  That's especially true for someone who is having suicidal thoughts.  In the long run, perhaps a specialist would be better, but for someone in a crisis you can't be picky.

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 i believe stanford instituted a policy a few years ago of trying to treat athletes in house rather than encourage them, as they encourage non-athlete students, to use their health insurance to see docs in the community. this can of course create problems if you don't have enough available docs that the patient likes.

I had missed earlier the report quoting Catlin's father stating that Stanford did not do enough to help his daughter. Looks like part of the issue was probably that Catlin was not a Stanford athlete, so maybe there was a question of whether those on staff who work with Stanford athletes should/could see her. (Neither Stanford nor the docs have commented, as far as I know.) Interesting that the NYTImes article elides over this pretty much completely.


From that earlier report (I don't have access to the Chronicle, where I believe it was first published, but here's the Daily's summary of what Catlin's father Mark has said):

 After Kelly’s previous suicide attempt and week-long hospital stay in January, Mark said, she was unable to see her preferred campus sports psychiatrist, Francesco Dandekar, because he was backlogged with cases until May.

Dandekar has not responded to The Daily’s request for comment.

Due to Dandekar’s unavailability, Kelly’s personal coach and University of Michigan professor Stephen McGregor recommended another campus sports psychiatrist. But Stanford barred Kelly from seeing this doctor, according to Mark and McGregor, because the doctor is contracted to work with varsity athletes, and Kelly did not compete on a Stanford team.

https://www.stanforddaily.com/2019/03/29...her-death/

My wife is a therapist, and she read these articles at my prompting.  She was perplexed by the family's insistence that Kelly see a sports psychiatrist.  Any trained therapist (and surely any psychiatrist) should be able to assist someone suffering from depression regardless of the cause.  That's especially true for someone who is having suicidal thoughts.  In the long run, perhaps a specialist would be better, but for someone in a crisis you can't be picky.