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Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in
Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in
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2024-05-20
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Although the stigma (污名) once associated with mental illness has receded in recent years, most of the 12 million Americans who have clinical depression still don’t get treated for it. In fact, according to mental health professionals, the majority of depressed people who seek professional help turn first not to a psychologist but to their primary-care physician.
But do regular doctors really know how to identify depression? A large new scientific review published on July 30 by the journal Lancet suggests they don’t. In a review of 41 previous studies involving more than 50,000 patients in developed nations around the world, the authors found that general practitioners make frequent mistakes, missing true cases of depression about half the time and incorrectly diagnosing it in 19% of healthy people.
This is significant because depression — especially if it goes untreated — can be debilitating (使衰弱) for the patient and his or her family. Depression also carries an enormous societal burden, leading to missed work days, loss of productivity and increases in health-care spending for co-occurring conditions like sleep problems or anxiety. Further, those misdiagnosed with depression may end up being prescribed antidepressant medications that not only cost a lot but can have serious side effects.
The various studies used different methods to verify whether doctors had missed depression in their patients. All the studies pointed to the same conclusion: general physicians aren’t very good at recognizing the most common mental illness in the world.
Why? One reason is that the typical doctor visit is quite short, usually no longer than 15 minutes. It’s hard for patients to open up about their symptoms during that brief period. The authors of the paper suggest that doctors should spend more time or schedule follow-up appointments with patients they suspect have depression and research has shown that such follow-ups can dramatically increase the rate of accurate diagnoses.
That’s surely a worthy goal, although, at least in the U.S. , it offers a classic example of the incentive problems in the current health-care system: if general practitioners spend extra time with each patient trying to diagnose psychiatric problems, they will see fewer patients in a day, which means fewer reimbursements (返还的费用) overall from the insurance companies. So is there another way?
Maybe. One method might be to write diagnostic criteria for depression that are sharper than the loose catalog of symptoms used today. The current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), lists such vague symptoms as "fatigue" and "indecisiveness" as possible markers of depression. And while the definition must be broad enough to encompass (围绕) a disease that manifests in many different ways in many different patients.
A large contingent (分遣队) of APA specialists is currently rewriting the diagnostic manual, but the revision won’t be out until at least 2012. In the meantime, most people will probably continue to use their general physician for front-line psychiatric care. That may be preferable to not seeking care at all, but for high-risk patients, it would be wiser to seek specialized attention. [br] If a healthy person was misdiagnosed, he or she would______.
选项
A、miss work days
B、be exhausted and lose productivity
C、suffer serious side effects
D、be sleepless and anxious
答案
C
解析
第三段提到,误诊为抑郁症的患者不仅要花很多钱来支付所开的抗抑郁药物的费用,也要遭受药物带来的严重的副作用,故答案为[C]。其他三项是抑郁症对病人的影响而不是健康人被误诊的后果。
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