Occupational factors and unexplained physical symptoms
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Reassurance: Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms
Bill Anderson Escobar et al.’s discussion of medically unexplained physical symptoms is useful, and could trigger a renewal of how the medical profession works [1]. We are in transition at the present, and what we have been trained for is less and less relevant. This disjunction between our training and practise has given rise to a generation of unhappy doctors. The traditional “doctor” dealt w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Psychiatric Treatment
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1355-5146,1472-1481
DOI: 10.1192/apt.4.3.151