As the head of student government at Duke University Schoolof Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, Sujay Kansagra had witnessedseveral of his fellow students dealing with depression. "I knew it was a big problem," he said. "People were feeling isolated."So Kansagra came up with an innovative way to provide emotionalsupport to depressed students while shielding their identities.With the help of Caroline Haynes, Duke's associate dean formedical education, he arranged an online forum to give studentsa safe place to talk and to help them "realize they aren't aloneand that there are a lot of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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