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During the Academic Year-End Transfer of Outpatients: Lessons From the Suicide of a Psychiatric Patient

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California, UCSF School of Medicine San Francisco, 401 Parnassus Ave., Box 0984-APC, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0984

    John Q. Young M.D., M.P.P. & Stuart J. Eisendrath M.D.

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Young, J.Q., Eisendrath, S.J. During the Academic Year-End Transfer of Outpatients: Lessons From the Suicide of a Psychiatric Patient. Acad Psychiatry 35, 54–57 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.35.1.54

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