[o]f all of the professionals in mental health, the most difficult problem we are having is recruiting psychiatrists, and we have barely been able to recruit half of the new ones that we said we wanted to do, and that it is in spite of raising the salary quite substantially, providing incentives for recruitment, bonuses, etc.
Michaud discusses challenges in recruiting psychiatrists for VA mental health services.
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