Chronic psychiatric patients often fail to receive adequate general medical care. Of 227 chronic psychiatric inpatients, 46 percent suffered from one or several physical illness requiring treatment and that 20 percent had some non-specific medical abnormalities that were previously undiagnosed. Morbidity in the chronic psychiatric inpatients far surpassed the expected rate found in the general population. These high morbidity may be due to the poor physical care in the past, and the difficulties in seeking and using physical care chronic patients usually have. A plea is made for careful medical evaluation of psychiatric patients and this would improve medical care for chronic psychiatric patients. Implications for current practice and psychiatric management are considered.
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