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LETTERS: Birte Twisselmann Do patients with unexplained physical symptoms pressurise GPs for somatic treatment?: Summary of rapid responses BMJ 2004; 328: 1319-b-1320-b [Full text]

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Unexplained physical symptoms? - No problem!

Jean P Fisher   (2 June 2004)

Unexplained physical symptoms? - No problem! 2 June 2004
Jean P Fisher, Salaried GP Central Liverpool PCT Send response to journal: Re: Unexplained physical symptoms? - No problem!	Editor, At last, help is at hand for those of us trying to manage patients with unexplained physical symptoms. With fortuitous timing, the answer arrived through my letterbox today, courtesy of the Health Protection Agency and the Royal College of General Practitioners: In the new flip over card file "New diseases. New threats", we are advised "If a patient presents with symptoms or signs that are difficult to explain, please contact your local Health Protection Team. If you don't have contact information for your local team, please call: 01980 612 100." So now we know. Competing interests: None declared