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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.”
