Patients do not demand and doctors do not misunderstand - How medically unexplained symptoms become medicalized

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 993-

  Persaud, Raj ^a  

^a SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSULTATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL CARE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTIVATION; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 33751307168     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.psy.0000248897.97492.06     Document Type: Letter

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