- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
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- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
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- 25 The eye
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- 26.1 General introduction
- 26.2 Taking a psychiatric history from a medical patient
- 26.3 Acute behavioural emergencies
- 26.4 Neuropsychiatric disorders
- 26.5 Psychiatric disorders as they concern the physician
- 26.6 Psychiatric treatments
- 26.7 Alcohol and drug-related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine
(p. 5259) Taking a psychiatric history from a medical patient
- Chapter:
- (p. 5259) Taking a psychiatric history from a medical patient
- Author(s):
Eleanor Feldman
- DOI:
- 10.1093/med/9780199204854.003.2602
It is important to screen for mental health problems: they are common in general medical patients and failure to recognize and deal with them will often interfere with the management of the physical health of the patient.
Depression can kill, and if by screening you identify depression, you should ask about hopelessness and suicidal ideation (how to do this sensitively is discussed in ...
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- 1 On being a patient
- 2 Modern medicine: foundations, achievements, and limitations
- 3 Global patterns of disease and medical practice
- 4 Cell biology
- 5 Immunological mechanisms
- 6 Principles of clinical oncology
- 7 Infection
- 8 Sexually transmitted diseases and sexual health
- 9 Chemical and physical injuries and environmental factors and disease
- 10 Clinical pharmacology
- 11 Nutrition
- 12 Metabolic disorders
- 13 Endocrine disorders
- 14 Medical disorders in pregnancy
- 15 Gastroenterological disorders
- 16 Cardiovascular disorders
- 17 Critical care medicine
- 18 Respiratory disorders
- 19 Rheumatological disorders
- 20 Disorders of the skeleton
- 21 Disorders of the kidney and urinary tract
- 22 Disorders of the blood
- 23 Disorders of the skin
- 24 Neurological disorders
- 25 The eye
- 26 Psychiatry and drug related problems
- 26.1 General introduction
- 26.2 Taking a psychiatric history from a medical patient
- 26.3 Acute behavioural emergencies
- 26.4 Neuropsychiatric disorders
- 26.5 Psychiatric disorders as they concern the physician
- 26.6 Psychiatric treatments
- 26.7 Alcohol and drug-related problems
- 27 Forensic medicine
- 28 Sports medicine
- 29 Geratology
- 30 Pain
- 31 Palliative medicine
- 32 Biochemistry in medicine
- 33 Acute medicine