Copan recurring three patients out of ten consultations in primary care. Addicted to the doctor
It appears that they have to consult your primary care second housing. Visit the doctor regularly to confess that the blessed, and sometimes are more related to the doctor with their own family members. Typically presenting various psychosomatic symptoms, and often the evidence and determine that no diagnosis optional suffer any physical pathology. But these patients are worried, frightened and suffering as if they had an organic disorder. Are addicted to the doctor, patients hyperfrequency in professional terminology. It is well known to those who use health resources in an excessive and arbitrary way of attending to the family doctor 12 or more times a year.
Recurrent patients consume nine times more medical resources and cause the remaining 10% of health spending. His inordinate attachment to the query posed to the state coffers by 0.9% of GDP, said Javier Garcia Campayo, psychiatrist at the Hospital Miguel Servet in Zaragoza, costs could be halved with proper training of physicians. Many of these patients come to believe that they have physical ailments, but the tests are usually negative.
Find it difficult to admit that they have no disease, what happens is that have amplified “its normal somatic signals,” says Jose Angel Arbesú, coordinator of mental health SEMERGEN. “Any small stimulus came for, and the worst that can happen is to meet with a doctor shortly receptive. We need to listen and explore, and never find stressful causes that have nothing to say. ”
The profile of patients with addiction is that of a woman, married, older than 50 years and with low educational level. Most relate to symptoms in many different organs and sometimes exaggerated to demonstrate the truth of them. His usual tagline is “something I have, when symptoms are vague and poorly defined. Tests and examinations requested by a banal symptom that always attributed to serious illness. The onset is sudden and is associated with emotionally traumatic events. Usually transient and spontaneous remission.
R. HERRERO – Rioja – 26 February 2009-Read the complete article