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Lynne Lamberg

JAMA. 2002;288:435-439.

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Philadelphia—"Every day, primary care clinicians face patients whose primary disease is psychiatric or is complicated by psychiatric issues," said Nada Stotland, MD, MPH, chair of a symposium on psychiatry in medicine at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) here in May. "Recent findings, including brain imaging studies, deepen appreciation that mind and body are one," said Stotland, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at Rush Medical College, Chicago.

With a growing number of psychiatrists working at the interface between medicine and psychiatry, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology recently submitted an application to the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) for approval of a subspecialty in psychosomatic medicine. The ABMS will begin its review process in September.

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