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Morning Report -- conference room, Packard basement:
Fellow residents look on as Matthew Musick, M.D., discusses mental health disorders in children.

 

Dressed in his white lab coat and a crayon-colored tie, Cohen joins about 30 bleary-eyed residents, some still in scrubs, as they load up on bagels and coffee for the daily Morning Report. Today's topic: mental health and advocacy. For Cohen and many others in the room, it's clearly a frustrating subject. As resident Matthew Musick, MD, explains, more than one in five children has a mental health disorder, yet there's a nationwide shortage of child psychiatrists and inpatient facilities, and many families have difficulty convincing their insurance companies or Medicaid to pay for mental health services.

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