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Does the Chronic Psychiatric Patient Understand Plain English?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

J. Cheadle  and
R. Morgan
J. Cheadle
Affiliation:
St. Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4JS
R. Morgan
Affiliation:
St. Wulstan's Hospital, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 4JS
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We are continually nagging patients. In a hospital which specializes in the rehabilitation of the chronic psychiatric patient (Morgan, Cushing and Manton, 1965) this is understandable. It goes on informally between nurse or doctor and patient, and at formal case conferences. Good advice is given on these occasions by a variety of people, in a variety of ways, and the patient responds with a variety of results.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 120 , Issue 558 , May 1972 , pp. 553 - 560
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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