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Did you miss the March 14th episode of The Dr. Oz Show?
As we mentioned before, one segment of the show featured Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), a cutting-edge treatment for depression that we started offering last year. Those clips are now up on the Dr. Oz website.
Important News about Blue Cross Blue Shield
We have been granted a 60 day extension to all established patients prior to December 1, 2011.
We are in-network with BC/BS till May 1st, only for patients before December 1, 2011. We are still actively negotiating with Blue Cross Blue Shield, but we will not sign a contract that puts our patients privacy at risk.
Complete a Survey & Sign a Petition >
What's Happening:
On December 1, Blue Cross Blue Shield plans to profoundly change your mental health care.
They are terminating all current BCBS mental health providers and will hand your mental health care over to New Directions; a managed care company that functions much like an HMO.
News & Articles:
Raising a Child with ADHD
By Anonymous
www.chabad.org
Most children are excited about school. But for my eight-year-old daughter, school presents serious challenges. The odds are heavily stacked against her. I can see and feel her apprehension as she checks her supplies one last time. She climbs onto my lap in need of extra reassurance. As she presses herself against me, I stroke her freshly washed hair, and softly tell her over and over again how much I love her... Read full article >
Sarkis Family Psychiatry In The News!
We have been featured on TV and in print publications.
New Commercial - Sarkis Family Psychiatry - Celebrating 20 Years
You deserve to feel better.
> Dr Johnson on WUFT News
Pediatricians now diagnosing ADHD in kids as young as four >
The American Academy of Pediatrics now indicates that kids as young as four years old can be diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Gainesville psychiatrist Dr. Michael Johnson comments on the change.
> Dr Sarkis on TV 20 - Medical Spotlight 9/9/11 - "Mental Health Help"
by Lisa Wolf - September 9th 2011
Early detection and treatment can lead a person suffering from mental illness towards a path of recovery.
Lisa wolf explains to us why mental health screenings were being provided to the community free of charge in downtown Gainesville. For more on the story please click the video.
> Dr Sarkis on TV 20 - Medical Spotlight 8/22/11 "Depression"
by David Snyder - August 22nd 2011
Here's one more way that men and women are different.
According to a study just published in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology... women more often internalize their emotions, leading to a higher rate of depression. And while there seems to be an ever- growing number of medications on the market -- is that the best way to treat depression?
In the Medical Spotlight, Elias Sarkis, M.D., founder of Sarkis Clinical Trials in northwest Gainesville explains to TV 20's David snyder the latest about the causes -- and triggers -- of depression.
> Dr Sarkis on TV 20 - Medical Spotlight 11/1/10 "Clinical Trials"
by David Snyder - November 1st 2010
They boldly go where no mind has gone before.
The field of Psychiatry relies on specialized studies to learn more about mental illness, and how to treat it. But, how are those studies performed, and who is performing them?
Elias Sarkis, M.D., of Sarkis Clinical Trials in Gainesville tells TV 20's David Snyder how these trials can benefit the people who volunteer for them, in the Medical Spotlight.
> Dr Sarkis on TV 20
Dr Sarkis of Gainesville, FL talking with Amanda of TV 20 on Childhood ADHD.
> Dr Sarkis' letter published in the Wall Street Journal
Nobody Chooses a Mental Illness
Regarding Thomas Szasz's "Universal Health Care Isn't Worth Our Freedom" (op-ed, July). Although the principles which Dr. Szasz espouses are worthy of discussion, I am bit outraged by his idea that schizophrenia does not belong in the same category of "unwanted happenings" such as lupus, leukemia and prostate cancer.
Elias H Sarkis. M.D.
Gainesville, Fla.
Please click here to be directed to The Wall Street Journal's site for more information
