Psychiatric Dimensions of Medical Practice: What Primary-Care Physicians Should Know about Delirium, Demoralization, Suicidal Thinking, and Competence

by Phillip R. Slavney and Dr. Phillip R. Slavney MD

In this book, Johns Hopkins psychiatrist Phillip R. Slavney, M.D., offers a concise guide that will help primary-care physicians evaluate and treat patients who are delirious, demoralized, thinking of suicide, or refusing to follow medical advice.

Although these patients exhibit emotional distress, cognitive disturbance, or maladaptive behavior, the cause of the problem is often their medical illness and treatment. For that reason, many such...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801859069
• ISBN13: 9780801859069
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"