STAT May 29, 2024
If there were ever to be an empty bed in the stress unit my psychiatrist dad manages, I’m certain he would admit himself. He runs the only private psychiatric practice in the rural Michigan town of Owosso and is the sole psychiatrist contracted at the local hospital. With approximately 1 in every 10 of the town’s 15,000 residents being a patient in his practice, he shoulders the responsibility for many more patients than most psychiatrists do. The issue isn’t confined to his town. Across the nation, half of the population resides in areas with an inadequate number of mental health professionals, and 65% of rural counties lack access to a psychiatrist entirely.
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