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Psychiatric Illness in the Medical Profession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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In view of the important implications of the subject, it is surprising that there have been so few studies of psychiatric illness within the medical profession, except specifically in regard to drug addiction. Indeed, we could find only two papers on the overall psychiatric morbidity in the profession published during the last decade (Duffy and Litin, 1964; Pearson and Streker, 1960). In Great Britain there have been no published studies of this kind as far as we can discover.
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