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Psychiatric populations show high rates of
significant medical disease – about 50% of in-patients in
most studies, and tend to receive poorer treatment for physical
disease than the rest of the population.
There is ongoing discussion about how best to
co-ordinate effective treatment of physical disease in people with
severe mental illness but there is no doubt that psychiatrists must
be competent in the recognition and management of physical
diseases especially those which are particularly common in the
population which they treat.
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