'I'm OK; you're not': Medical socialization and psychosomatic illness

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 33-36

  Elks, M L ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMPATHY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATICS; REVIEW;

EID: 0031032955     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-9877(97)90021-9     Document Type: Article

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