Community and Patient Support
Many MS Centers provide additional resources with the understanding that some of the most immediate concerns of the newly diagnosed are not medical but social and psychological. In addition to providing full-time social workers for patients and their families through two LCSWs, the CGD Center is unique in providing the services of a psychiatrist trained in the psychiatric manifestations of MS. The Center also provides monthly patient education seminars discussing research and treatment topics.
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