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(Medical Journal of Australia) The relationship between personality disorders and mental health, substance use severity and quality of life among injecting drug users
Archives of General Psychiatry, a monthly professional medical journal published by the American Medical Association, publishes original, peer-reviewed articles about psychiatry and related fields
Although psychoses and ethnicity are well researched, the importance of culture, race and ethnicity has been overlooked in Personality Disorders (PD) research. This study aimed to review the published literature on ethnic variations of prevalence, aetiology and treatment of PD.|Although psychoses and ethnicity are well researched, the importance of culture, race and ethnicity has been overlooked in Personality Disorders (PD) research. This study aimed to review the published literature on ethnic variations
The present work represents a detailed description of our current understanding and knowledge of the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis and clinical manifestations of mood disorders, their comorbidity and overlap, and the effect of variables such as gender and age. This review article is largely based on the 'Mood disorders' chapter of the Wikibooks Textbook of Psychiatry http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Textbook_of_Psychiatry/Mood_Disorders.|The present work represents a detailed description of our current under
'What They Should Really Teach in Medical School' Julie Schopps, MD , February 6, 2012 The North Carolina-based pediatrician weighs in on why she thinks the real learning doesn't take place until students are out of the classroom.
Improve EHR Systems by Rethinking Medical Billing Daniel Essin, MA, MD, February 6, 2012 Separating billing-related data from other clinical documentation and transmitting it to a billing system is not difficult …no matter how the charting is done.