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‘You saw he was listening to you’: people Pope Francis met in their hour of
need
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The late pontiff embraced those traditionally on the margins of the church
and society. Here, some of those he met describe his impact
Pope Francis annou...
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THE FASHION AND TREND ; ....Across the country, doctors like Sullivan are facing a spike in psychiatric emergencies - attempted suicide, severe depression, psychosis - as states slash mental health services and the country's worst economic crisis since the Great Depression takes its toll.
This trend is taxing emergency rooms already overburdened by uninsured patients who wait until ailments become acute before seeking treatment.
"These are people without a previous psychiatric history who are coming in and telling us they've lost their jobs, they've lost sometimes their homes, they can't provide for their families, and they are becoming severely depressed," said Dr. Felicia Smith, director of the acute psychiatric service at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
Visits to the hospital's psychiatric emergency department have climbed 20 percent in the past three years.
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