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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,