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Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in recent years, most of the 12 million Americans who h
Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in recent years, most of the 12 million Americans who h
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2012-05-28
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Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in recent years, most of the 12 million Americans who have clinical depression still don’t get treated for it. In fact, according to mental health professionals, the majority of depressed people who seek professional help turn first not to a psychologist but to their primary-care physician.
But do regular doctors really know how to identify depression? A large new scientific review published on July 30 by the journal Lancet suggests they don’t. In a review of 41 previous studies involving more than 50,000 patients in developed nations around the world, the authors found that general practitioners make frequent mistakes, missing true cases of depression about half the time and incorrectly diagnosing it in 19% of healthy people.
This is significant because depression — especially if it goes untreated — can be debilitating (使衰弱) for the patient and his or her family. Depression also carries an enormous societal burden, leading to missed work days, loss of productivity and increases in health-care spending for co-occurring conditions like sleep problems or anxiety. Further, those misdiagnosed with depression may end up being prescribed antidepressant medications that not only cost a lot but can have serious side effects.
The various studies used different methods to verify whether doctors had missed depression in their patients. All the studies pointed to the same conclusion: general physicians aren’t very good at recognizing the most common mental illness in the world.
Why? One reason is that the typical doctor visit is quite short, usually no longer than 15 minutes. It’s hard for patients to open up about their symptoms during that brief period. The authors of the paper suggest that doctors should spend more time or schedule follow-up appointments with patients they suspect have depression and research has shown that such follow-ups can dramatically increase the rate of accurate diagnoses.
That’s surely a worthy goal, although, at least in the U.S. , it offers a classic example of the incentive problems in the current health-care system: if general practitioners spend extra time with each patient trying to diagnose psychiatric problems, they will see fewer patients in a day, which means fewer reimbursements (返还的费用) overall from the insurance companies. So is there another way?
Maybe. One method might be to write diagnostic criteria for depression that are sharper than the loose catalog of symptoms used today. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), lists such vague symptoms as "fatigue" and "indecisiveness" as possible markers of depression. And while the definition must be broad enough to encompass (围绕) a disease that manifests in many different ways in many different patients.
A large contingent (分遣队) of APA specialists is currently rewriting the diagnostic manual, but the revision won’t be out until at least 2012. In the meantime, most people will probably continue to use their general physician for front-line psychiatric care. That may be preferable to not seeking care at all, but for high-risk patients, it would be wiser to seek specialized attention.
Why do general physicians often make mistakes when identifying depression?
选项
A、They are not willing to spend time together with patients.
B、They don’t understand the catalog of depression symptoms.
C、They don’t pay a visit to depressed patients.
D、They cannot learn well of the patients’ symptoms due to the short visiting time.
答案
D
解析
第五段提到,普通医生不擅长诊断抑郁病病人的原因之一是诊疗时间很短,这么短的诊疗时间根本不足以让那些息者打开心扉谈论自己的病症。由此可以推断出医生对病人的病情了解不够是误诊的原因之一,故答案为[D]。
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