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The Interface Between Psychiatry and General Medicine

JOHN J. SCHWAB, MD; ROY S. CLEMMONS, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;14(5):504-508.

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THE STAGGERING needs of the population for psychiatric care and the limited number of available personnel and facilities have led to newer orientations for psychiatrists and other physicians. Consultation psychiatry is one of the new approaches and although its past history is scanty, its future is promising. The consultation situation should be particularly favorable for psychiatric intervention, at least in the dimensions of time and place. The medical patient has already acknowledged his patient status, indicating that he is receptive of some type of help, and he is in the hospital or clinic where he assumes that he will receive the care he needs.

In order to meet the burgeoning demand, accurate identification of the patients needing consultations is essential. In the past, identification has been faulty, mainly because our view of these patients was incomplete. To paraphrase St. Paul, they were seen . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GAINESVILLE, FLA

From the departments of psychiatry and medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 27, 1965.

Read as part of a symposium entitled "Psychiatric Consultation—The Interface Between Psychiatry and General Medicine," at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, May 1965.

Reprint requests to the J. Hillis Miller Health Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla 32603 (Dr. Schwab).

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