When a rash broke out on the hand of a patient taking part in the trial of a promising schizophrenia drug, clinical investigator Greg Mattingly began to fret that it might be an allergic reaction.
Instead, it turned out to be a mark of success: the patient, in his fifties, had landed his first job in more than a decade as a waiter, and the skin inflammation was a side effect not of the drug, but of washing dishes.
Securing a full-time job may seem unremarkable, but for most people living…
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