Psychosomatic illnesses in patients attending the medical outpatient department in a government hospital

Chakraborti, R.N.; Chakrabarti, N.; Chatterjee, P.

Journal of the Indian Medical Association 102(1): 33-34

2004


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-5847
PMID: 15195857
Document Number: 582304
The incidence of psychosomatic illness among Indian patients has been found to be high. Owing to the stigma attached to psychiatric illnesses, most patients remain reluctant to visit a psychiatrist. The result is an overcrowding in the medicine and other specialist departments. A psychiatry department with consultation-liaison psychiatric service in each government hospital is the need of the day.

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