Postpartum Progress: AMA Newspaper Focuses on Barriers to Caring for PPD Moms

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February 11, 2008

AMA Newspaper Focuses on Barriers to Caring for PPD Moms

American Medical News, the newspaper of the American Medical Association has just published a great story on postpartum mood disorders called "Beyond the Baby Blues: A Spectrum of Postdelivery Conditions." It features myself and a host of fabulous doctors, including Dr. Marlene Freeman, Dr. Shoshanna Bennett and Dr. Katherine Wisner among others. It covers barriers to care by physicians, which is extremely important given that we're trying to get a bill passed in the Senate asking for more education and training of doctors, among other things. Here is my favorite quote from the article:

"This is a disease that lives between specialties [obstetrics/gynecology, psychiatry, pediatrics]," Dr. Wisner added. "Patients are running around in circles."

Exactly.

Posted at 11:55 AM in MOTHER'S Act, Perinatal Mood Disorders, Postpartum Depression, Postpartum Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Postpartum Psychosis, PPD In the News, Screening | Permalink

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