From the Editor
“‘I think your brother has schizophrenia,’ she said.
“I was entering my third year of medical school when I received a phone call from my brother’s friend.”
So begins a perspective paper published in today’s issue of The New England Journal of Medicine. The essay is deeply moving. Written by Dr. Saadia Sediqzadah, a fifth year psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto, the author discusses her brother’s schizophrenia and her family’s efforts to get him care – for Dr. Sediqzadah, dealing with mental illness is not just part of her training.
This week, we consider Dr. Sediqzadah’s paper.
Note that for some of our younger colleagues who have just finished their medical training and begun their specialty training in psychiatry, this week will be your first Reading. Welcome to the conversation.
DG
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