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Doctors: Shutdown affects patient health

Publish date: January 21, 2019

 

A majority of U.S. healthcare professionals report that their patients have been negatively affected by the partial shutdown of the federal government. Also today, a mental disorder diagnosis increases the risk for all mental disorders, frailty may affect the expression of dementia, and nearly one-quarter of antibiotic fills are deemed unnecessary.
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