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This piece discusses an internal medicine trainee’s attempt to process the untimely death of a patient seen in primary clinic by suicide. More specifically, it explores the role mental health may have played in the patient’s care, and the possibility of the symptoms which were labeled as functional having been manifestations of underlying psychiatric illness. The piece also attempts to explore the unique challenges facing veterans within the healthcare system.
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Razmjou, A.A. A Troubling Notification. Cult Med Psychiatry 44, 457–460 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-020-09670-w
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