Many Hide Depression from Physician

This Chicago Tribune article entitled "Many Don't Want to Tell Doctors About Depression" reveals that the stigma of telling a physician about depression is less likely related to stigma of depression itself, but most often a fear of being placed on an antidepressant medication. Other reasons were a concern about an employer seeing a depression diagnosis on their paperwork. How can physicians and mental health professionals work together to facilitate an open environment for talking about and treating depression and other mental illnesses? What other factors might these researchers not have attributed for in this study?