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Article: Psychiatric shortage, Five years after CAMC training ended, delays common for young patients
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- December 21, 2003
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When the state lost its only program that trained child
psychiatrists, one of the specialists who taught in the program at
Charleston Area Medical Center predicted trouble.
"The problem will not be right now, and possibly not even next
year," Dr. Carol Klein told the Gazette in 1999. "But down the road,
there will be problems."
Nearly five years later, amid a national shortage of child
psychiatrists, area children younger than 18 must sometimes wait
weeks or even months to see specialists in the Kanawha Valley.
Others see general psychiatrists, who have some training in how to
deal with children but don't specialize in their treatment. This
doesn't include the children who are sent to ...