1) Doctors and nurses selecting emotionally disturbed patients from the same population concurred in only about one-third of cases.
2) Nurses tended to select more seriously ill patients with organically impaired brain function, while the resident physician selected younger, less seriously ill patients.
3) These discrepancies are best understood in terms of how the patient's total pattern of behaviour intrudes itself and provokes uncertainty in the different roles of physician and nurse.
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MeyerE.: Unpublished data from records of the Psychiatric Liaison Service.
