The Largest Health Disparity We Don’t Talk About – The New York Times

Read article - Quotes Brendan Reilly, honorary professor and instructor of medicine, in an article about how Americans with depression, bipolar disorder or other serious mental illnesses die 15 to 30 years younger than those without mental illness—a disparity larger than for race, ethnicity, geography or socioeconomic status. Reilly comments on the treatment of his brother, where countless physicians, hospitals, and rehab facilities missed the spinal cord damage that left him quadriplegic—instead variously ascribing his inability to move to his mental illness, his medications or his will.