{"id":406,"date":"2016-06-11T20:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/?p=406"},"modified":"2016-06-11T20:54:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-11T20:54:56","slug":"psychologists-do-patients-choose-us-or-is-there-something-much-worse-going-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2016\/06\/11\/psychologists-do-patients-choose-us-or-is-there-something-much-worse-going-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Psychologists: do patients choose us or is there something much worse going on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not taking new patients so I basically say no to every phone call that comes in and try to find a good person that might fit them to send them too.<\/p>\n<p>However, here are two stories to give you something to think about in regards to &#8220;choosing&#8221; who you will work with and responding to appointment requests.<\/p>\n<p>The first one: Need Therapy? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/personal-health\/need-therapy-thatll-be-tough-if-youre-not-white-or-middle-class#.V1rqzysaW_s.twitter\">That&#8217;ll Be Tough If You&#8217;re Not White or Middle Class:<\/a> Psychologists in New York City screened out the poor and African Americans from their client base. They used voice actors to call a number of NYC psychologists and the results are a bit disheartening.<\/p>\n<p>The second one: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/entertainment\/life\/when-does-refusal-to-counsel-become-discrimination-34ed7861-5799-22da-e053-0100007f259c-382474321.html\">When does refusal to counsel become discrimination?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think these recent articles are worth your time; check them out.<\/p>\n<p>Todd<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=PsychologyDotNews&#038;loc=en_US\">Subscribe to get new Psychology.news posts delivered to you by email<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and\/or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewsandimes.com\">Learn more about work from home opportunities in medical records review or performing IME&#8217;s<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I&#8217;m not taking new patients so I basically say no to every phone call that comes in and try to find a good person that <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/2016\/06\/11\/psychologists-do-patients-choose-us-or-is-there-something-much-worse-going-on\/\" title=\"Psychologists: do patients choose us or is there something much worse going on?\">[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychology.news\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}