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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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What is primary care? Part 2

Noreta Family Medicine

I enjoy seeing patients for all kinds of visits as well – mental health, physicals, GYN concerns, coughs/colds, etc. I cannot tell you the number of times that I have seen a patient and discovered additional diagnoses after they had been to urgent care. In fact, I enjoy patients who are engaged in their care and ask questions.

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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.