Schizophrenia for Doctors in General Medicine

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With almost a quarter of a million sufferers being treated by the National Health Service in the UK, schizophrenia today constitutes one of our major public health challenges. If you are a doctor working in a busy family doctor’s practice or in the emergency department of one of our hospitals you may find that caring for patients with this enigmatic and complex illness throws up many problems. How best to communicate with patients? What are the principal risks that they face? And how to help them onto a long-term recovery path so that they can improve their quality of life? These are often issues that doctors struggle with.

In this book David Bell, who has himself spent a large part of his life struggling with schizophrenia, draws on his own experiences of NHS care, both good and inadequate, and his own deep insight into his condition. He talks about what we already know about this often challenging illness: who is at risk, the causes, the symptoms and the treatments and tries to reinforce the basic knowledge that doctors receive during their training. He looks at how doctors in general medicine can communicate better with people with schizophrenia and provide better care by helping to improve adherence with medication and cope with side effects. He looks at the physical illnesses that so often accompany the condition and he talks honestly about some of the difficult subjects around schizophrenia that people are often reluctant to discuss like drug abuse and dangerous behaviours such as suicide and violence.

Whilst schizophrenia may be a very difficult condition to treat it is not an impossible one and doctors who approach the subject with confidence and equipped with evidence-based knowledge can make a real difference to all those struggling with it.

Pages: 88

Format: Kindle Edition

Publisher: LWS (UK) CIC

Release: March 14, 2019

Schizophrenia for Doctors in General Medicine

David Bell

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Release: March 14, 2019

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