Doctors' ongoing education, empathy, and continuous emotional and psychological support for patients might help to deal with their medically unexplained symptoms
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- DOI: 10.3399/bjgp19X704237
Doctors' ongoing education, empathy, and continuous emotional and psychological support for patients might help to deal with their medically unexplained symptoms
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What should we say to patients with symptoms unexplained by disease? The "number needed to offend".BMJ. 2002 Dec 21;325(7378):1449-50. doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7378.1449. BMJ. 2002. PMID: 12493661 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
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