It’s estimated that seventy percent of a primary-care doctor’s practice now involves management of psychosocial issues ranging from marriage counseling to treatment of anxiety and depression. The HMS Center for Primary Care’s new program to improve the quality of psychiatric care offered by primary-care doctors is highlighted. Russell Phillips, HMS professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and director of the Center for Primary Care, is quoted. The author, Suzanne Koven, is an assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
