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J Indian Med Assoc
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2004 Jan; 102(1): 33-4
Article
in English
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| ID: sea-104733
ABSTRACT
The incidence of psychosomatic illness among Indian patients has been found to be high. Owing to the stigma attached to psychiatric illnesses, most patients remain reluctant to visit a psychiatrist. The result is an overcrowding in the medicine and other specialist departments. A psychiatry department with consultation-liaison psychiatric service in each government hospital is the need of the day.