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Medical Complications of Psychiatric Illness (8807) by Claire Pomeroy, James E. Mitchell, James L. Roerig, Scott J. Crow, James Edward Mitchell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Medical Complications of Psychiatric Illness (8807) about?
Psychiatric patients have an increased rate of morbidity and mortality due to physical illnesses. Distressingly, psychiatrists fail to recognize these comorbid medical illnesses in nearly half of all cases. All too often, the physical illness may be causing or exacerbating the psychiatric symptoms. Furthermore, the psychiatric condition itself and iatrogenic complications of medication or other treatments can result in serious medical pathology. Until now, most psychiatrists have deferred the general medical care of their patients to other practitioners. Yet because psychiatrists are uniquely positioned to provide health care that bridges somatic and mental conditions, they are increasingly being called on to ensure that their patients also receive adequate medical care. This breakthrough text responds to that call to action from a perspective unique in the literature: It focuses on the medical complications of psychiatric illnesses, rather than the more typical psychiatric complications of medical illnesses. This concise yet comprehensive book is intended for practitioners who treat adult medical patients. It is divided into two main sections: -Health Care of Psychiatric Patien
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- Author
- Claire Pomeroy, James E. Mitchell, James L. Roerig, Scott J. Crow, James Edward Mitchell
- Publisher
- American Psychiatric Association Publishing
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781281765260
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Psychology, Nursing
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