Kristen Eckstrand and Vanderbilt highlighted in JAMA

JAMA. 2015;313(1):15-17. doi:10.1001/jama.2014.17243.
 

The family medicine physician listened attentively as 19-year-old Kristen Eckstrand described the reason for her visit.

“I was going through a period of major depression, so over winter break I went in to see the doctor to get some help with that,” Eckstrand recalls a dozen years later. “I was trying to explain to my doctor everything that was going on in my life.”