TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Several doctors at Larned and Osawatomie state hospitals and Kansas state prisons are working with special "institutional licenses" despite not having a full medical license, in part because the state has a severe shortage of psychiatrists, state officials said.
Nine of the 13 physicians at Larned and 10 of the 22 physicians at Osawatomie are currently on "institutional licenses," according to Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services. And at the state's prisons, one of nine medical doctors and four of nine doctors who specialize in psychiatric medicine have the l...
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