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Guest Essay

By Richard A. Friedman

Dr. Friedman is a psychiatrist.

A few years ago, a colleague called to tell me our friend and fellow psychiatrist had collapsed at home and died of a cardiac arrest. She was in her early 70s, without any previously known medical illness. Within hours, a group of shocked and grief-stricken psychiatrists gathered at her home office, faced with a predicament: We had no idea who her patients were,........

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