What's More Depressing than an Exodus of Mental Health Professionals?

I guess the answer would be a major Sunday "takeout" on depression in New Orleans that never mentions the disappearance of as much as 80% of the mental health professionals from the city.
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I guess the answer would be a major Sunday "takeout" on depression in New Orleans that never mentions the disappearance of as much as 80% of the mental health professionals from the city. Of course Peter Whoriskey's piece indulges in the lazy Katrina-mongering:

More than two years after the storm, it is not Hurricane Katrina itself but the persistent frustrations of the delayed recovery that are exacting a high psychological toll on people who never before had such troubles, psychiatrists and a major study say.

But it's the peculiar failure to report the exodus of mental health professionals that makes this piece so strange. The statistic is not hard to come by:

According to a report published in early August in the Journal of the American Medical Association, of the 196 psychiatrists practicing in the city before the storm, there are now only 22.

Although that's a 2006 citation, so some updating would have been a useful function of, say, a major Sunday takeout on the subject of depression in New Orleans.

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