Stressed Patients Need a Different Doctor Tool Set
Research shows that up to 70% of patients who visit their primary care provider do so because of mental health problems, including depression, anxiety, stress and burnout. Patients with psychological or social problems make heavy demands on the general practitioner’s workload. They contact their practice almost twice as often compared to patients with only somatic problems and they receive more diagnoses, with a greater variety of problems.
Modern Medicine – Issue 2 2023
