Panic disorder and the primary care physician.(Editorial)

From: American Family Physician | Date: November 15, 1995| Author: Doyle, Brian B. | Copyright information

The busy family physician has many patients who present with a mixture of physical symptoms and psychologic distress. As Dr. Weinstein writes in his article, "Panic Disorder,"[1] many of these patients will prove to have panic disorder. Once panic disorder is recognized in a patient, it often is fully treatable in the primary care setting.

Too often, however, panic disorder is not recognized early enough or even at all. Patients with panic disorder have intensely real and w...

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