Psychiatrists in management

Consultation-liaison psychiatrists' management of somatoform disorders.

The authors studied interventions recommended by consultation-liaison (C-L) psychiatrists when they diagnosed somatoform disorder prospectively in a cohort of 4,401 consecutive inpatients referred to the C-L psychiatry service of a general teaching hospital, using standardized MICRO-CARES methodology. A DSM-III-R somatoform disorder was diagnosed in 2.9%, somatoform pain disorder in 1.4%, conve...

The Psychiatrists

Although written by a professor of politics, this book is about American psychiatrists and analysts. It describes two different 'tribes' of doctors: analysts, more highly selected, earning more money and seeing fewer patients, who are individually more important and more influential, and general practitioners, working in mental hospitals and centres and seemingly regarded as an inferior breed. ...

Training psychiatrists in South Africa.

Roles and practices of general practitioners and psychiatrists in management of depression in the community

BACKGROUND Little is known about depressed patients' profiles and how they are managed. The aim of the study is to compare GPs and psychiatrists for 1 degrees) sociodemographic and clinical profile of their patients considered as depressed 2 degrees) patterns of care provision. METHODS The study design is an observational cross-sectional study on a random sample of GPs and psychiatrists worki...

Patients’ expectations from internists, psychiatrists and surgeons

Introduction: Treatment is a complicated phenomenon which is influenced by a lot of factors. An important factor which directly affects patients’ treatment is the relationship between patient and physicians. This study was conducted to investigate the expectations of patients from their physicians. Methods: The target population in this cross-sectional study was all patients who, for the firs...