Diagnosis, Hospital, Lab Testing and Mental Health

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

PEMBlog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

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.

Lab Testing

Lab Testing Medical Patients Mental Health

Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Pamela Wible MD

JUNE 20, 2025

Economic forces, technological demands, and widespread intergenerational physician mental health wounds have culminated in a highly dysfunctional and toxic health care system in which we find ourselves in daily forced betrayal of our deepest values. Yet moral injury is not an official diagnosis.

Medical Student

Medical Student Diagnosis Physicals Medical

Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

JULY 7, 2022

Haider is a physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the VA in Boston. And I wonder as you think about that and as you think about pain being a vital sign, every shift in the hospital people are asking if they’re having pain, we’re going in there asking people, “Are you hurting?

Patient-Centered

Patient-Centered Physicals IT Patients

Primary Care Digest

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

Not “burnout,” not moral injury—human rights violations

Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

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