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Audio: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Depression Screening for All?


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This week, the United States Preventive Services Task Force issued new recommendations calling for all adult Americans to be screened for depression by their doctor. In this edition of WBUR’s On Point, host Tom Ashbrook discusses the Task Force’s findings with Melissa Healy, health and medicine reporter for the Los Angeles Times; Dr. Bradley Gaynes, professor of psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and writer and lecturer Andrew Solomon (who comes on at 24:00).