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Although patients with both physical and mental illness (combined illness) are common in general hospitals, psychiatric units have been traditionally reluctant to accept such patients for intensive psychiatric care. This article presents three case reports of patients with combined illness who were largely refused at psychiatric units despite stable vital signs, and discusses factors compelling and hindering psychiatric unit acceptance of such patients. Such patients can be managed on psychiatric units when hindering factors are addressed. The most critical factor is an ongoing collegial relationship with nonpsychiatrist consultant physicians and nurses. The psychiatric unit can improve its worth and reduce stigma and mystique within the general medical hospital by becoming more accepting of these patients.
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PMID:Obstacles to the care of patients with medical-psychiatric illness on general hospital psychiatry units. 843 81

Male impotence and infertility are health and social problems that have resulted in significant suffering to men the world over. From an African perspective, and in Zimbabwe in particular, the taboo nature of male impotence and infertility carries a lot of mystique. Based on evidence from focus-group discussions, in-depth and key-informant interviews, this study reveals rural Shona people to have indigenous knowledge systems that trigger the investigation of signs of impotence (perceived as associated with male infertility) at infancy, puberty and after marriage. Male infertility carries overtones of failure, frustration, pain, social ostracism, stigma, marital instability, discomfiture and suicide. Intervention strategies to remedy perceived problems were exclusively sociocultural, involving the administration of traditional herbs and traditional healers' divination. Given the existence of indigenous knowledge systems for the investigation and mediation of male impotence and infertility, it is worth incorporating traditional healers in future strategies targeting these emasculating conditions.
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PMID:Indigenous knowledge systems and attitudes towards male infertility in Mhondoro-Ngezi, Zimbabwe. 2355 Jun 31