HealthyGamer, Beginnings, and License Reprimand
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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00:00 Introducing Dr. K from HealthyGamer
00:54 Dr. K's experience with UnitedHealthcare
05:38 Why did Dr. K become a psychiatrist?
11:54 Did Dr. K plan on becoming a content creator?
24:57 Reckful & Dr. K's reprimand
42:36 How do clinicians exist in a public world?
51:36 What does HealthyGamer do?
1:08:23 What is a day in the life of Dr. K like?
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December 30, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, just Irving listeners. We have a very special guest with us today, Dr. Kay from Healthy Gamer. |
| 0:07.0 | He is one of the biggest, if not the biggest psychiatrist, psychology individuals on the |
| 0:14.9 | internet today. And I am quite honored to have you with me. Dr. Kay, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | It's an honor to be here, Dr. Honda. |
| 0:22.7 | So I want to get into a few things today. |
| 0:24.5 | I want to talk about the genesis of your career and also of Healthy Gamer itself. |
| 0:29.6 | And I'm genuinely curious about all the things that Healthy Gamer is doing these days, because it's a large organization doing a lot of good work. |
| 0:39.3 | I also want to talk about your reprimand to your license. |
| 0:44.0 | I think you represent a good example of someone who responded well to the information, |
| 0:50.7 | well before the reprimand even happened, actually. |
| 0:53.2 | But first I want to talk about |
| 0:54.3 | United Health Care. What is your experience with United Health Care, if you have any? |
| 1:01.0 | Yeah. So, I mean, I've had some experience with United Health Care. You know, when we're, |
| 1:05.5 | when we have patients, so this is like more when I was like at Mass General and McLean, where |
| 1:10.0 | we sort of understood that some health insurances are harder to work with. |
| 1:15.1 | Some health insurances, especially when it comes to mental health care, are like more or less prone to deny care. |
| 1:23.2 | So generally speaking, you know, when we saw a patient with United Health Care, we knew that there was going to be somewhat of an uphill battle about sort of getting coverage and days extended and things like that if people needed longer inpatient's days. |
| 1:37.3 | You know, I did not interact with United Healthcare directly very much. |
| 1:41.4 | Sometimes I would hop on, you know, a call to approve a certain kind of treatment with one of their, like, in a more escalated fashion. |
| 1:48.8 | With the story that's been coming out and you've observed, I'm guessing, the discourse public around United Healthcare the american health care insurance industry and the shooting of the |
| 2:06.1 | CEO any thoughts on the matter you know i i i do not think that assassinating someone in the street |
| 2:12.8 | is a good idea so so i personally am a pretty big believer in a hymsa or nonviolence. So I don't think that |
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