Psychiatric Illness In Medical Patients Research Articles

Recognising and evaluating disordered mental states: a guide for neurologists

The overlap between neurology and psychiatry should be obvious, given the two disciplines’ shared concerns with disorders of the human nervous system and the effect of these disorders on such...

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Unrecognised psychiatric illness in medical patients

Psychiatric illness in medical patients: Why it goes undiagnosed

In the face of technologic advances in medicine and in psychiatric treatment in particular, failure to regard patients as more than the mechanical sum of their parts has led to a persistent problem of underdiagnosis and undertreatment of psychiatric illness in medical patients. The author proposes seven factors that contribute to this problem and makes a plea for humanistic interpretation of medical advances and increased collaboration between psychiatry and the rest of medicine.