Phillip R Slavney

Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice

What Primary-Care Physicians Should Know about Delirium, Demoralization, Suicidal Thinking, and Competence to Refuse Medical Advice

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Produktbeschreibung

Serious physical illness may often lead to psychiatric disorders. In this book, noted Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., offers a concise guide that will help primary-care physicians evaluate and treat patients who are delicious, demoralized, thinking of suicide, or refusing to follow medical advice. Although such patients exhibit emotional distress, cognitive disturbance, or maladaptive behavior, Slavney explains, the cause of the problem is often their medical illness and treatment. For that reason, many such patients can receive excellent care from their own physicians -- physicians who, given the resistance of insurance companies to specialist referrals, must now bear that responsibility in any event. After an introductory chapter that explains clinical assessment, Slavney treats each of the four common conditions as it occurs in the clinical setting, with illustrative cases and specific advice about evaluation and treatment.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 222g
• ISBN-13: 9780801859069
• ISBN-10: 0801859069
• Artikelnr.: 21851885

Autorenporträt

Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., is Eugene Meyer III Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the author of Perspectives on "Hysteria" and co-author, with Paul R. McHugh, M.D., of The Perspectives of Psychiatry, also available from Johns Hopkins.