INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we consider some other important mental health issues encountered in medical settings. Recognizing the signs and symptoms of these disorders can prevent misdiagnoses…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen At this point, it’s time to consider the diagnostic interview. By now you know the major mental disorders you will need to master in medical settings—depression,…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we address substance use, the final topic for which future clinicians will need considerable mastery in handling mental health problems in medical settings….
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen To this point, from Chapters 1, 2, 3, you have learned about the frequent physical symptom presentation of mental health problems in medical settings. And you…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Anxiety is a universal, adaptive human experience keeping us alert and safe from danger. It produces our “fight or flight” responses to perceived threats. Anxiety is…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Let’s summarize where we have been and where this chapter is going. From Chapters 1 and 2, you learned that mental disorders often occur in patients…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen As outlined in the Preface, there are compelling reasons for all clinicians to become familiar with mental and addiction disorders: they provide the vast majority of…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In Chapter 1, we presented 3 axioms of mental health care for medical settings: (1) The comorbidity of medical and mental disorders is frequent; (2) chronic…
FIGURE 39.1 Standard bag-valve-mask setup. Note that the bag is self-inflating, so it can be used with (usual) or without (in emergencies) an external gas supply. The “tail” of the…
FIGURE 71.1 Volume of lung transplants in the United States. There has been significant increase in the volume of lung transplantation in the past decade, mostly due to increase in…
