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Article: Mental health fits in medical homes.(News)
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2007
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"It will be almost mandatory for pediatric offices in the future to have access to an on-site mental health professional in order to meet the needs of our patients," Dr. Francis Rushton predicted.
"An increasingly larger proportion of our patients present with mental health issues, and more and more pediatric offices are recognizing the benefits of an on-site mental health professional."
"Patients like seeing the mental health counselor in the primary care office better [than at the mental health center]," Dr. Rushton, a pediatrician in private practice in Beaufort, S.C., said in an interview. Teenagers in particular are ...