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Mental Retardation

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“Doctor, do you think my child is slow?” This is a difficult question for parents to ask and for a physician to answer. When raised, it presents a clinical problem that usually challenges the physician’s entire range of expertise, experience, and resources. As mental retardation is the most common developmental disability of childhood, the family physician can expect to face this challenge many times during the course of professional practice.1

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  1. Leroy A. Rodgers
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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D. (Professor) (Professor)

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Rodgers, L.A., Lynch, D.J. (1983). Mental Retardation. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4002-8_111

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