Psychiatric Illness in the Medical Profession

Abstract

In view of the important implications of the subject, it is surprising that there have been so few studies of psychiatric illness within the medical profession, except specifically in regard to drug addiction. Indeed, we could find only two papers on the overall psychiatric morbidity in the profession published during the last decade (Duffy and Litin, 1964; Pearson and Streker, 1960). In Great Britain there have been no published studies of this kind as far as we can discover.