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Psychiatric patients do not live as long as other people. This fact of psychiatric life was first reported early in the 20th century, and recent epidemiologic studies indicate that it continues to be true. It is a matter of central concern for all psychiatrists.
Psychiatry is the only medical specialty that demands for its backgrounding the whole of medicine because it is the only medical specialty that deals with the whole individual. W. A. White Presidential Address before the American Psychiatric Association, 1925
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Schiffer, R.B., Klein, R.F., Sider, R.C. (1988). Physical Illness among Psychiatric Patients. In: The Medical Evaluation of Psychiatric Patients. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0783-7_3
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