Racial Disparities Found in Pinpointing Mental Illness
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 03:00 AM EST
Shankar Vedantam... Last of three articles John Zeber recently examined one of the nation''s largest databases of psychiatric cases to evaluate how doctors diagnose schizophrenia, a disorder that often portends years of powerful brain-altering drugs, social ostracism and forced hospitalizations. ...
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