I was told by a friend who lives in Baltimore that there was an aticle
either the Dec 2002 or Jan 2003(but I think probably January 2003) the
Baltimore Sun that talked about how severe bilateral lower leg
fractures(ie,compound compartment fractures)often lead to severe
depression.I would like to have a copy of the article.

journal not available online. here is the abstract, etc.
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Database
  MEDLINE
Unique Identifier
  12361514
Authors
  Read KM.  Burgess AR.  Dischinger PC.  Kufera JA.  Kerns TJ.  Ho SM.
 Burch C.
Institution
  The Charles McC Mathias, Jr National Study Center for Trauma and
EMS, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Title
  Psychosocial and physical factors associated with lower extremity
injury.
Source
  Annual Proceedings/Association for the Advancement of Automotive
Medicine.  46:289-303, 2002.
Abbreviated Source
  Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med.  46:289-303, 2002.
Local Messages
  Undefined
Abstract
  With the increasing availability of modern occupant restraints, more
drivers and passengers are surviving high-energy crashes. However, a
large number, especially those involved in frontal and offset frontal
crashes, incur disabling lower extremity injuries. In the past, not
much attention was paid to these injuries, as they were usually not
life threatening. Despite the low AIS scores associated with injuries
to the lower extremities, they pose a major physical and psychological
burden on patients' and their ability to return to pre-crash
functioning. Associated injuries, such as mild brain injuries, and
psychosocial factors such as depression, also influence the long-term
outcome.

Take this info to local library. they should be able to do an
interlibrary loan and get the entire article for you.

This is a free search engine for health care. takes about 5 minutes to
learn. You should focus on using wildcards and catagories to make
seaches quicker eg address is baltimore

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

forgot to add the free search engine, sorry.