Reсovery Story: Carol North, psychiatrist

Against all odds. Psychiatrist and disaster expert Carol North inspires patients, colleagues - October 10, 2003, By Jim Dryden

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Carol S. North was camping in rural Missouri with her two Great Danes on Sept. 11, 2001. Shortly after the hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, reporters started calling. Soon she had been tracked down and brought back to town.
To understand why the media immediately went looking for North on that terrible day, you have to understand how she makes a living.
North, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine and an expert on disasters.

North says it’s a miracle that she’s even working today.
Late in high school, she became very ill. During her freshman year of college, she was hospitalized and diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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