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Psychiatrists can perform remote video evaluations of mentally disturbed patients in emergency rooms all across rural South Carolina, eliminating the need for face-to-face exams and greatly reducing the backlog of such cases. South Carolina's five-year-old tele-psychiatry program, which received $4 million from the General Assembly, has been so successful that North Carolina launched a similar one in 2010, and a dozen other states plan to follow suit. In all states, patients deemed dangerous to themselves or others must be examined by a psychiatrist before...