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Article: A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF CHILD PSYCHIATRISTS INFLICTS TOLL NATIONWIDE.(News)
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- The Kentucky Post (Covington, KY)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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Byline: David Crary Associated Press
NEW YORK -- In state after state, bleak statistics and grim anecdotes lead to the same diagnosis: America suffers from a serious, long-term shortage of child psychiatrists.
Another left Wyoming last year; there are now two in the state. In Augusta, Ga., Dr. Sarah Sexton tells would-be new patients she might be able to see them in July. Elsewhere, doctors take no new patients at all.
"There is no state where it is not a problem -- none," said Dr. Gregory Fritz, director of child psychiatry at Brown Medical School in Providence, R.I. "We see it in the emergency ward every night, where problems have gotten ...