| Abstract: | ‘You want me to see a physician?’ The patient wasclearly aghast. ‘A physician?’ Dr Barton sighed inwardly. He wondered, yet again, why the patientshe saw in his psychiatric out-patient clinic so often foundthis suggestion unacceptable. The stigma attached to physicalillness was still very great, in spite of all that the medicalprofession and the media had done to educate the public. Almostdaily, he saw patients like this. They were only too happy toconfess their deep-seated feelings of insecurity, or their unmanageablesexual desires. But they would |
