Beyond diabetes there are psychiatric aspects of stroke, pain,
substance abuse (particularly nicotine), asthma, heart disease,
reproductive health, gastrointestinal illness, infectious disease,
cancer, migraine.
.
.
the list is huge.
What can be done?...
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Beyond diabetes there are psychiatric aspects of stroke, pain,
substance abuse (particularly nicotine), asthma, heart disease,
reproductive health, gastrointestinal illness, infectious disease,
cancer, migraine.
.
.
the list is huge.
What can be done? Asking patients to cross Stockton Boulevard
whenever they have a symptom or disease that affects both the
mind and body will surely result in more than the occasional traffic accident.
We need to move mental health out of the ghetto, reestablish good communication between mental health providers
and the rest of the medical community, abolish insurance systems that isolate and stigmatize mental health care, and integrate
mind health into medical school and residency programs (and I
don t mean the oh-god-I-have-to-do-a-psych-rotation system currently in place).
We have to reject the Cartesian fallacy that says
that mind and body are separate: good medical care means treating the whole person.
It s time to abandon the boulevard.
Dr.
R
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