HomeProvider StoriesWe did the GeneSight testing about the second or third psychiatrist into the story and we had remarkable results We did the GeneSight testing about the second or third psychiatrist into the story and we had remarkable results December 3, 2024 Daniel Duffy, MD, Family Physician Read the transcript At least a quarter of patients who walk into a primary care office have psychiatric issues. You know, psychiatry is not from the head up. It’s the whole body, and and that makes a big difference if you’re a primary care doctor. Hi. I’m Dan Duffy. I’m a family physician. I practice in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which is north of Milwaukee. One of my daughters at fifteen, sixteen had pretty significant crisis and she was admitted for several weeks and she just never got better. And, she came out of hospitalization and still wasn’t doing well and had been tried on many different medicines and seen three or four psychiatrists, wasn’t getting better. We did the GeneSight testing about the second or third psychiatrist into the story and we had remarkable results. And what was remarkable is then when she got on that medicine within several weeks, we started to finally see a response, which was, you know, she finally was able to get back into school, she was back into life, her interactions with us and with her friends was amazing. The story though doesn’t stop there and it doesn’t stop there for a lot of my patients either because move forward ten years and unfortunately mental illness like diabetes and everything else doesn’t stop. Another crisis happens and now there’s new medicines that we can retest. So she was recently retested by her psychiatrist. What’s good is it helps the psychiatrist, but it also helped her because she is so frustrated at this point as what am I gonna do? You know, I can’t get better, you know, and she and she thinks about it and thinks about it and thinks about it. 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