The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16

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further in o
cases. to determine just what part
Of the trouble was really mental
and what part could be purely
physical.
In short the address Of which l
an thinking was based upon the
dependence Of internal medicine
upon neuro-psychiatric conditions.
With his extensive knowledge OF
mental conditions, DR.. Fischbein
came back constantly to the fact
that all our medicines depended for
results upon the nter-relation OF
conditions In the body and mind.
as well as on the situation as to
health or disease.
Treat Them Lightly
The serious problem that faces
the entire medical profession Is
that most Of US are inclined to
treat these body mind" cases
rather lightly. That Is, we say. "Oh.
you Just think sol" or "You will
think differently when you feel
better" not realizing that such q
superficial approach Is fatal. We
might have helped to adjust this
patient mentally, and thus made
treating his body q routine matter.
A quarter Of . century ago. 1t
would have heesk hard to convince
anyone that = m(ntal lilment md
some physical teuha4s could be
connected. Many mOry8 the cases
were merely turned eStoe as cross.
or mean. or selfish. or some such
disagreeable Characteristic.
The branch Of science that we
call neuro-psychiatry Is still given
. place Of secondary importance in
about three-fourths OF our medical
schools. And the modern young
doctor doesn't really know. as q
rule, how much he is going to have
to do with cases that have no de
monstrable organic disease" How
many times have you heard some
one say, THE doctor can't find q
single thing wrong with Jane or
John. and yet there Is always some
thing the matter!"?
Medical records tell us that one
person In every 70 is wholly or par
tally insane: that some form OF
ueuroSis Is as common as the COM
mon cold. Also that half Of all our
hospital beds are filled by people
who are suffering from some form
a. nervous or mental disease Again,
that q person with an observant
eve. IN Z stroll on q main street.
en- detect some person who Is par
tally insane passing every minute
O. two.
Think We Are Sick
That sounds rather gruesome.
hut no one can practice medicine
without finding that just about
every other person, that Is one in
two. viii present some form Of dis
order that Is not the result OF Or
Rnn1c disease, but Is brought on by
his personal difficulties or frustra-
No doubt, many Of us are called
Nql1oer." and we do not find 1t any
I'm. either. We have been q very
long time teaching the public that
= human being Is q biologic whole;
that what affects one part Of the
bCdy u quite likely to affect some
other part. Then we have to re-
member the many specific changes
that take place In the body In the
course Of existence: the period Of
rapidly growing childhood. the
years Of adolescence with their de-
mands upon the understanding,
the time Of waning strength and
mental powers. In any one Of these
periods. we have as well the changes
In the glands, the varying metab-
olism. the cell changes. the water
balance. any one Of which can
Thoroughly upset even q well bal
oncod person. to the point that he
- distinctly not well. even when no
poayoical disorder can be named.
Some one has said that any doc
tog could make . good living of Of
IT, people whom he turns aside be-
oouSe 10 says he cannot find any
tn3ng the matter with them. II only
~ undegstood how to ferret out
t1r1s troubles, and catalogue the
oGublnat3ons Of body -mind" trou-
\ ~ that ore linked together.