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Thomas L. Delbanco, MD; Jennifer Daley, MD; Janet Walzer, MEd

JAMA. 1996;276(10):822.

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In October 1995, at Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Dr Frederick Goodwin discussed a 47-year-old man with long-standing depression, treated with several courses of psychotherapy and short courses of a number of antidepressant medications without much success.¹ The patient's care was further complicated by obesity and type II diabetes mellitus. Dr Goodwin highlighted the role of the primary care doctor in managing mild to moderate depression, proposing a coordinated, sequential approach that integrates psychotherapy and pharmacological therapy. He advocated the use of short-term cognitive and behavioral techniques, coupled with medications used singly or in combination.

Mr N, THE PATIENT:

Looking back over the past months, in some respects I have been almost totally nonfunctional and denying many things, while in other parts of my life I have been fine. For everything, with all my juggling, there has just been too little time, and now the bills are piling up. But it basically . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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