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Dr Etemad describes her several year treatment of Molly, a female with anorexia nervosa (AN), treated from age 14 to young womanhood. Despite the desirability of psychiatric management of this case, the patient’s family refused psychiatric consultation and co-management, leaving the physician to manage the entire case. Dr Etemad describes how she managed this dilemma, in effect providing psychotherapy in addition to medical management. Associated are the developmental-psychological challenges intertwined with the patient's AN illness. This narrative shows how a complex medicalpsychiatric illness can be managed in a primary care setting by a motivated and concerned clinician.
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Etemad, E. (2018). Management of a Teenager with Anorexia Nervosa: a Family Medicine Perspective. In: Frankel, S., Bourgeois, J. (eds) Integrated Care for Complex Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61214-0_13
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