26 year-old white male, graduate student in Urban Planning, Chicago, IL
In the spring of 2005, I had recently changed jobs several times and relocated from Indiana to Chicago. I was shuffled through several primary care physicians as a result of switching health insurance plans. My continuum of care had clearly been interrupted and I was beginning to doubt if my treatment for Attention Deficit Disorder would ever resume a positive course. Finally, I was referred to Dr. Mills. Unlike other doctors who doubted the validity of my diagnosis or treated me as a file to be processed, Dr. Mills engaged me as a human being. I never once felt as though our appointments consisted of the usual: How are you feeling? No problems with the medication? See you next month. He made me feel welcome in his office and welcome to call if I had any problems with prescriptions. I never felt like I had to hide anything from him. We built a rapport over several appointments. He taught me how to build cognitive templates to control my anxiety and was very honest about the beliefs of therapy on my condition. Once I was able to control my anxiety, he recommended that we reduce the frequency of our visits.