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Article: Shortage of child psychiatrists decried
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- April 7, 2006
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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 that is taking a toll on
young people, their parents and their doctors.
Wyoming is down to two child psychiatrists; another left last
year. 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 out of hand ...