There have been few studies in the past of the incidence of physical disease in the mentally ill relative to that of the general population. Many writers have pointed to the concurrent or subsequent development of such disorders as pulmonary tuberculosis or enteric fever during the sojourn of psychiatric patients in mental hospitals, and there are a considerable number of reports from physician...

The present work was carried out to study the awareness of non-psychiatric clinicians working in a teaching general hospital about the frequency of psychiatric morbidity in their clinical practice, their utilization of psychiatric consultation services, and opinion about utility of liaison psychiatry in general hospitals. A substantial proportion of doctors underestimated the psychiatric morbid...