12 Oct Beyond Medical Treatment: Why Social Workers Are Essential to Better Healthcare
When you think about healthcare, your mind probably jumps to doctors, nurses, scans, and prescriptions. Fair enough. Yet a huge part of health has nothing to do with stethoscopes.
It has to do with housing, family stress, mental health, addiction, insurance, and whether you can actually follow a treatment plan once you leave the clinic. That's where social workers step in, often acting as the missing link between medical advice and daily reality.
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