Treatments of physical and mental health are coming together
Physicians and therapists traditionally haven't collaborated
much when treating the same patient, but the federal healthcare
law is spurring a change.  June 09, 2013|By Anna Gorman, Los
Angeles Times   • A patient talks about her depression to
therapist Neil Martin at T.H.E. Clinic in South Los Angeles.
“It’s so linked, physical and mental health,” Martin said. A
patient talks about her depression to therapist Neil Martin at
T.H.E.… (Gina Ferazzi, Los Angeles…)  Many days, the sheer
weight of Iszurette Hunter's clinical depression becomes more
than she can lift. She clings to her bed in her South Los
Angeles home. Important obligations slide away, including
keeping appointments with doctors who are trying to control her
asthma and high blood pressure.  "I don't have no desire," she
explains.  As the nation seeks to extend healthcare coverage to
millions of new and in many cases chronically ill patients, one
of the great parallel challenges to contr