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By Erik Robinson September 19, 2023 Portland, Oregon

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Alan Teo, M.D., associate professor of psychiatry in the School of Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University, and a psychiatrist in the VA Portland Health Care System. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)