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You don’t need labs to medically clear a psych patient

PEMBlog

When should the emergency physician obtain lab tests to medically clear such patients? In fact, some Emergency Departments note that as many as one tenth of their patient volume is mental health. They carry existing diagnoses and are followed by outpatient mental health providers.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

Haider: In fact, I think one of the things that allows us to do, and one of the things that I’m a big proponent for, is that many patients with pain, especially patients with chronic pain can really, really benefit from specific cognitive mental health therapies that have been designed to help those people in pain.