The last time they talked, the teen was primarily interested in Pokemon and video games. Since then, he’s grown up. He’s more into country-western music and fishing.
He also recently wrote a bomb threat at school.
Psychiatrist Jenna Saul often has long stretches between in-person visits with patients, such as this teen, because of overwhelming demand for her services. So Saul uses a webcam to talk with this patient and others because it allows her to reach outlying areas of the state where many counties don’t have any psychiatrists who work with children. She works from an old horse barn in Marshfield, refurbished with access to a broadband signal coming from a silo across the road.
“We had to really wrangle this system to make it work,” Saul said. For the full article click here
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