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Article: Collaborative care ideal in serious mental illness.(Mental Health)
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- Family Practice News
- Article date:
- June 15, 2008
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Patients with serious mental disorders will be best served when psychiatrists starting thinking like primary care physicians, and primary care physicians start thinking like psychiatrists, experts said at a forum on integrating physical and mental health care.
"There has always been this disconnect between what we think of as physical illness and what we think of as mental illness," said Dr. J. Sloan Manning, a family physician at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. "The reality is that there is no disconnect.... We, the medical community, are the ones who are divided."
This philosophical division has created a practical division as well, in ...