MedPage Today (10/25, Frieden) reports, “As the pandemic continues, clinicians should be on the lookout for patients at risk of” dying by homicide-suicide, according to comments made by Elias Ghossoub, MD, during the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Ghossoub conducted a literature review and “recommended that…healthcare professionals in the emergency department and in primary care offices should screen adults for depression, suicidality, or substance use disorder.”
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