Word: patients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farnsworth recognizes the overcrowding problem but there is not much he can do about it. It is the dilemma of the administrator who does not control unlimited funds. But, Dr. Farnsworth quickly points out, no patient ever has to wait to see a psychiatrist if he is deemed an emergency case--that is, if he has become psychotic...
...patient who arrived on a busy afternoon found only standing room available, and the standing overflow blocked the passage of nurses carrying supplies. The whole thing looked like Durgin Park on Saturday night...
...names of all students in the two panel survey samples who visited the Psychiatric Service of the University Health Services at any time during their undergraduate years were noted. The chief of the Psychiatric Service categorized each patient as to the type of disorder and listed the number of visits made to the Psychiatric Clinic. One question in the Final Questionnaire given in the senior year asked for information about psychiatric or counseling help from sources other than the University Health Services. The independent variables for this study thus consist of students who had psychiatric help from the University Health...
...only was the psychiatric patient more likely to report that his past health was less than excellent, he also used the medical and surgical clinics more frequently during college. Another health-related variable comes from a question on the medical form filled out by the student at the time of his freshman physical examination. "Do you have any problems that you would like to discuss with any doctor?" About a sixth of the students answered yes and among this group a rather high proportion eventually sought psychiatric help. Apparently at time of matriculation some students could articulate their need...
...theme that appears in two other studies is that of dissatisfaction and depression. A study at Oxford by by Davidson and Hutt found that psychiatric patients had a significantly higher score than controls on the Depression Scale of the MMPI. Like the Harvard Study, that from Yale found dissatisfaction to be much more lent among the psychiatric patient. We might not be surprised to find some depression early in college because of the mourning involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college...