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Forbes: The forgotten patients - why medicine ignores suicide

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 26, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 07:34
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The Forgotten Patients by Robert Langreth and Rebecca Ruiz

The mental health industry ignores the 35,000 people a year who commit suicide. A few researchers are trying to change that.

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