Psychiatric Morbidity among the General Hospital Medical Patients in Kuwait: Characteristics of Psychiatric Patients
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Identifying psychiatric illness among general medical patients.
The recognition of psychiatric illness by physicians and surgeons comes about either by the doctor noticing some cue that suggests psychological disorder or because the patient's complaints cannot be accounted for by known organic disease. In either case the doctor must be able to follow up with appropriate questions which will enable him to make a confident diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder....
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Principles and Practice
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1011-7571,1423-0151
DOI: 10.1159/000026108