Robert P. Allred, PhD, ABPPWhen Macbeth asks for his assessment, the Doctor does not hedge. He has watched carefully and arrived at a clear conclusion—not about the diagnosis, but about its implications for treatment. "More needs she the divine than the physician..."
New Blog Post: The warm handoff in diabetes care is not a response to complications. It is a standard feature of care for a condition that is biopsychosocial from the start.
Robert AllredGuest post on the CFHA blog: the chart said AUD. The room said something else entirely.
On substance use in primary care, functional use, and the relationship that's still there after a relapse.
When the Chart Says Substance Use and the Room Says Something Else - Integrated Care News
That gap, between what the chart said, and what I read in the room, is where much of the work happens in primary care. Universal screening with validated tools, brief intervention, referral to treatment (e.g., SBIRT) has a robust evidence base, and at the population level, it works. A well-resourced implementation trial across 22 primary […]
Guest post on the CFHA blog: the chart said AUD. The room said something else entirely.
On substance use in primary care, functional use, and the relationship that's still there after a relapse.
When the Chart Says Substance Use and the Room Says Something Else - Integrated Care News
That gap, between what the chart said, and what I read in the room, is where much of the work happens in primary care. Universal screening with validated tools, brief intervention, referral to treatment (e.g., SBIRT) has a robust evidence base, and at the population level, it works. A well-resourced implementation trial across 22 primary […]
Robert P. Allred, PhD, ABPP | he/himGuest post on the CFHA blog: the chart said alcohol use disorder. The room said something else.
On substance use, primary care, and why the warm handoff opens a door—not closes a loop.
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When the Chart Says Substance Use and the Room Says Something Else - Integrated Care News
That gap, between what the chart said, and what I read in the room, is where much of the work happens in primary care. Universal screening with validated tools, brief intervention, referral to treatment (e.g., SBIRT) has a robust evidence base, and at the population level, it works. A well-resourced implementation trial across 22 primary […]
What PCPs come to trust is not what they were told in a meeting but what they observed over months: that the BHC shows up, that warm handoffs are met with enthusiasm rather than...
Eliot asked us to be present and willing—to be quietly human. Primary care behavioral health built a system for answering those calls—not with elaborate machinery, but with presence, intention, and a colleague who is in the building right now.
E.M. Forster's novel Howards End (1910) has an important theme about connection: "Only connect." He meant these word as an instruction—a belief that the distance between people, whatever its source, is the thing most worth closing...
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