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احمدزاده غ, ملكيان آ, معروفي م. Physicians and a common problem named "somatization". RBS 2012; 9 (5)
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Physicians and a common problem named "somatization"
غلامحسين احمدزاده1 , آزاده ملكيان2 , محسن معروفي
1- روان پزشك، مركز تحقيقات اختلالات روان تني(سايكوسوماتيك)، دانشگاه علوم پزشكي اصفهان، مركز تحقيقات علوم رفتاري دانشگاه علوم پزشكي اصفهان، اصفهان،ايران.
2- دانشيار گروه روان پزشكي، مركز تحقيقات علوم رفتاري، دانشگاه علوم پزشكي اصفهان، ، اصفهان، ايران.
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A significant proportion of the patients referred to health services are people who have some psychosocial problems. Many of these patients can not explain their problem obviously and prefer to express them as nonspecific somatic and bodily symptoms; although there are no definite clinical and laboratory findings about any specific medical disease. This phenomenon named "somatization". Recurrent visits of these cases in outpatient clinics or hospitals and the vicious cycle of unnecessary investigations that reinforce "sick role" and somatic complaints, cause many problems for the patients, as well as the physicians and health services. 
Keywords: somatization, medically unexplained symptoms, somatoform disorders.
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Received: 2020/02/8 | Published: 2012/02/15
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