1st Edition

Treatment or Diagnosis A study of repeat prescriptions in general practice

Edited By Michael Balint, John Hunt Copyright 1970
208 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in... Read more

PREFACE; INTRODUCTION PART I TABLES 1 Methods and Pilot Studies 2 Repeat-Prescription Patients- Are they an Identifiable Group? 3 Differences in the Doctors' Prescribing Habits 4 What was Prescribed PART II PEOPLE 5 Peace 6 Disturbances 7 Truce 8 Conclusions - What can be Done? APPENDIX Long-term Consumers of Psychotropic Drugs by Jasper Woodcock NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Biography

Michael Balint, John Hunt, Dick Joyce, Marshall Marinker