A Failure to Communicate: Depressed Patients and Their Primary Care Physicians

November 19, 2001 A Failure to Communicate: Depressed Patients and Their Primary Care Physicians Patients experiencing unnecessary treatment difficulties; physicians thinking they're more helpful than patients perceive them to be - these were some of the communications shortfalls in primary care depression treatment disclosed by a study released recently by the National Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association (DMDA).  DMDA investigators interviewed 1,000 people with major depression and 881 primary care physicians (PCPs) who were members of the American Medical Association and the American Osteopathic Association.  The Findings had particular importance because the vast majority of Americans with depression are . . .