Psychiatric Considerations in the Adjustment of Patients with Poliomyelitis

NO two orthopedic conditions are ever exactly the same to the last detail, nor do any two patients ever show precisely the same array of symptoms. Yet there are essential similarities in symptom patterns that enable the physician to think of one patient as being much like others in his experience and allow him to distinguish meaningfully one group of patients from another. In large measure this patterning is the key to all diagnosis and treatment. In a general way paralytic poliomyelitis resembles a large number of other orthopedic conditions, both as an illness experience for the patient and as . . .