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Article: For Iraq's mentally ill, a double blow War worsens cases and batters care
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- May 21, 2008
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Erica Goode The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
05-21-2008
For Iraq's mentally ill, a double blow War worsens cases and batters care
Byline: Erica Goode The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 4
Section: NEWS
BAGHDAD --
In a different time, in another country, where violence and terror did not stalk the streets, Dr. Amir Hussain could practice psychiatry the way he once hoped to.
He can see it in his mind: the clean, tastefully decorated hospital wards, the well-stocked pharmacies, the gleaming laboratory equipment, the thickly carpeted consulting rooms, the halfway houses and outreach teams that help chronically ill patients reestablish their lives outside the ...