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Challenges for psychiatry in the 21st century

Psychiatrists manage ambiguity in diagnosis as well as management of patients with psychiatric disorders and contain anxiety experienced by patients and their families as well as that of the teams. The changes in societies and cultures in the past few decades have produced changes in their expectati...

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Autor principal: Bhugra, Dinesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31508092
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spelling pubmed-67350272019-09-10 Challenges for psychiatry in the 21st century Bhugra, Dinesh Int Psychiatry Special Paper Psychiatrists manage ambiguity in diagnosis as well as management of patients with psychiatric disorders and contain anxiety experienced by patients and their families as well as that of the teams. The changes in societies and cultures in the past few decades have produced changes in their expectations of their doctors, including psychiatrists. In some high-income countries, patients are better informed about their conditions and treatments than they were before. This availability of knowledge has led to a levelling in the relationship between patient and doctor. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2011-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735027/ /pubmed/31508092 Text en © 2011 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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