His team's findings were presented this week at the annual meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine in Palm Springs, California. Most of the conferences involved initial consultations between a psychiatrist and patient.
Patients seem to agree.
You can see that there might be an advantage from a money point of view. But the service would probably not be equivalent,'' he said. And Hilty believes that consumers should be especially wary of online purveyors of psychiatric care.