The understanding and sympathetic physician realizes that almost every patient who
consults him is worried and anxious. Sometimes the cause of the patient's anxiety is …

There are more hopeful avenues of approach to the management of" functional" disorders
than is the case with most" organic" diseases. Indeed, an optimistic attitude toward the …

In the best concept of the term, all human beings are psychosomatic problems. Every patient
has both somatic and psychologic problems, excepting those that are dead when the doctor …

It is possible for even the busy family physician to gauge in a practical way the degree of a
patient's neurosis. To estimate the patient's anxiety it is necessary to find out what the …

• One thousand unselected outpatients who presented puzzling diagnostic features were
examined by the Mount Sinai Hospital consultation service. Examining facilities …

The patient who seeks advice because he feels weak and tired seldom realizes the
complexity of the problem he presents to his physician. Unless he fears carcinoma or …

The treatment of the great number of patients with bodily disturbances and with emotional
reactions occurring as part of the human organism's response to adverse life situations is an …

With insufficient information and an inaccurate diagnosis a patient may start a program of
rehabilitation totally unsuited to his handicap; hence the first major division in the …

A few months ago I saw a patient in an attack of acute abdominal pain so strongly
suggesting an obstruction of the large bowel that a surgeon was called. This was at night …

Consciously or unconsciously every physician, surgeon or specialist must give attention to
the influence of mental, nervous and emotional factors in health, illness and convalescence …