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

Pamela Wible MD

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.

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Exploring the Nature of Chronic Pain with Haider Warraich

GeriPal

I think defining pain as in identifying what exactly is the nature of the pain, not only may you may change what type of therapy that you get benefit from, but it might alert you to a diagnosis that may have been missed in the past. We’ve seen the stigma associated with mental health. And what might happen to him today?