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Psychiatrists seldom include systematic physical assessment in their clinical practice. Patterson (1978), in a survey of psychiatrists trained at a California university center, reported that in office settings 85% seldom or never performed a physical examination as part of their initial evaluation. Of the minority who did, younger psychiatrists were much more highly represented than their older colleagues. McIntyre and Romano (1977) reported similar results in a survey of psychiatrists in Rochester, New York. They found that only 13% of full- and part-time faculty do an initial physical examination upon their inpatients and only 8% upon their outpatients.
Psyche and body, I suggest, react sympathetically upon each other; a change in the state of the psyche produces a change in the shape of the body, and conversely: a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the psyche. Aristotle
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Schiffer, R.B., Klein, R.F., Sider, R.C. (1988). Psychiatry and Physical Assessment. In: The Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0783-7_2
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