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UCLA Health's website describes Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS as a geriatric psychiatry specialist within UCLA's psychiatry department, part of the UCLA Health system in Los Angeles. UCLA Health operates a network of hospitals, clinics, and specialty programs affiliated with the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, with services spanning primary care, specialty care, immediate and pediatric care, surgical centers, imaging, and a comprehensive cancer program. Patients access care through the myUCLAhealth portal and can request second opinions, virtual visits, and primary or specialty appointments. Dr. Lavretsky's geriatric psychiatry work intersects with Long COVID care for older adults experiencing cognitive, mood, and post-acute neuropsychiatric symptoms.

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Mixed experience

Chronic Illnesses: Long COVID
Last appointment: Within the last 6 months

Dr. Lavretsky is part of UCLA's long covid program. I had one appointment with her and it was a mixed experience. On one hand, she doesn't attribute long covid symptoms to depression/anxiety/etc. like a lot of psychiatrists do and she gave me a prescription for memantine to help with my brain fog. On the other hand, she was rather disorganized and unprofessional on the day I saw her and part of her standard protocol for long covid patients is a meditation on why the universe wanted them to have long covid (not a helpful framework, in my opinion).

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