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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER t. 1362 The Medical Roundup (f. Vy Kmerllm P Emeritus Profinr of Medicine Mayo Clinic (RKiiter and Tribune Syndicate, tmetitut Cniuullant In Medicaid Mavo Clinic 1961) MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, OREGON Hecogniiing Menial Trouble As 1 say here from time to tune, many a woman who over the course of years has M" complained lir ''JM bitterly or an V ahdnmrn full !'J of miseries gi4 and, because ' $ f of them, has ' inree or lour o p e r a t ions, 1 " 'y has really f Ia.'? J ' bcen depress- J edand in need aivarrt of a pnyema Irist. I have seen cases in which all of the woman's aches and pains disappeared almost overnight - after a short course of elcctroshock treatments which cured her depression. On several occasions, a doc tor has brought me his wife, who was full of pain. Strange to say, he had not seen the significance of the fact that she was badly depressed. Re cently, Dr. frank Ayd, Jr., wrote a splendid little book to show that one of the com monest diseases there is, and one that is most often mis diagnosed, is a mental depres sion. The patient usually talks ol his abdominal pain, or his feelings of fatigue, or illness, or toxicity, and fails to say that he has had spells of sad ness and discouragement and depression - perhaps some what like those of his mother or aunt. For 25 years, while 1 was teaching graduate medical students, I often found it dif ficult to convince them that the woman before us was in need of psychiatric care and not in need of an operation for her gallstone or "fibroid," which was not producing any symptoms. To 111 To Work Many times I have had an able physician refer to me a patient who was loo miserable and ill to work, and was thought to have some serious disease, perhaps of his sex glands. One glance at the shy, sad-faced muii who couldn't look me in the eye, and one touch of his cold wet hand, and I knew that he was a schizophrenic. With a few questions, I learned that he, a man of 40, had never in his life dated a girl, and had never had a job. He had al ways lived wilh his mother. Trobahly the reason why his physician had never noticed that he was mentally disturb ed was that in medical school the doctor had failed to get any training in psychiatry. I am writing here of these menially disturbed people be cause I recently read an ar ticle by Dr. Nathan S. Kline, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia university. He said what is so true, that present day psychiatric concepts are so complex thai most medical students, anticipating no great need for them in their future practice, either neglect the subject or soon after gradu ation forget what little they were taught. Consequently, in this field of medicine a higher than average number of patients will be misdiagnosed, and as a result they will not receive (he treatment they greatly need. fastiH- csRelc - .gh kF xa Deans . of medical schools tell me that it is hard to find teachers capable of interesting Ihe students in the art of recognising and helping men ially disturbed and maladjust ed patients. The students do not want to attend a course in psychiatry because llicy think they will never in their office see a patient with a mental problem. They could not be more wrong, because mental troubles arc the com monest of all. A third of the people who come to me com plaining of a stomach-ache or indigestion have some mental or nervous problem. . Training in Big City Anuthcr reason why many doctors rarely recognize "functional" (nervous) trou bles is that they get their four years of practical training in , a big lity hospital or a Uni-' vc,-sity hospital in which ! nmJ o the patients are ser-; iously ill wilh the end-results of hardening of the arteries, ; in Ihe heart, the brain, or the -kidneys, or they are suffer ing from the end-results of high blood pressure, arthritis, diabetes, chronic alcoholism or cancer. Many a young doctor has t said to me, "How can you ex pect me to recognize nervous and mental troubles in cul tured people when, during my hospital days, my profes sors never showed me a single patient with such diseases?" What makes matters worse is (hat commonly, when a pa tient comes in with symp toms due to dissipation, alco- ; holism, much worry, divorce j trouble or trouble with a problem child, he says nothing about what he is going through. What is the lesson to be learned from this by people who are ill? The lesson is that when you go to a physician, and after having been ex amined you are told that your troubles are probably all due , to "nerves," and that you are depressed, if you are going through a time of great stress or unhappiness, don't lie; tell him the truth about your troubles and sorrows and un happiness. Then he may be able to help you. Seven Persons Appear in Court; Two Sentenced Thomas Lang Johnson, 22. Grand Rapids, Mich., was sentenced in Jackson county circuit court this week to three years in Ihe Oregon Slate Correctional Institution for burglary. He had pleaded guilty earlier to breaking into Pa cific Motor Trucking company building, 202 Front St., Med ford, on Sept. 30. A hearing was set in circuit court for Nov. 8. at 8:30 a.m. on charges of probation vio lation for James Brandel Backes, 13, of 325 Columbus si., Medford. He had been placed on probation for grand larceny. Trial has bcen set for Nov. 19 for William Robert Eber hardt, 40, of 516 South River side ave., charge with receiv ing and concealing stolen prop erty. He pleaded innocent to the charge when arraigned. He is accused of receiving knives, guns and ammunition belonging to William Bryant. Psychiatric examinations were ordered for two men charged wilh sodomy. Bobby Vernon Wright, 316 Willamet te st.. and Donald Lee Sco ville, 21, of 108 South Central ave. Imposition of sentence was suspended for three years on Hallct Howard Anderson, 18, of 230 Beatty St., Medford. for contributing to the delinquen cy of a minor. He was placed on probation. He had pleaded guilty to the charges earlier. The case of Olc Thorvald Nygard, 18, of Seattle. Wash charged with contributing to the delinquency of a mi:. or, was continued until Nov. 8 for a plea to be entered. All but nine stales end their fiscal years June 30. 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