Targeted Pain Interview
Targeted Pain Interview Charles De Mesa, DO, MPH Dustin Ward, MD INTRODUCTION Communication is key in the interview process. Listen and pause to gain a sense of the context of…
Pain Anatomy and Physiology
Pain Anatomy and Physiology Damoon Rejaei, MD Samir J. Sheth, MD FAST FACTS Pain transmission and sensation is a complex phenomenon composed of multiple components including nociceptor activation, ascending spinal…
Essential Tools of Primary Care Pain Medicine
Essential Tools of Primary Care Pain Medicine Catherine Platt, MD Samir J. Sheth, MD Ian J. Koebner, PhD, MSc, MAOM Anthony DiGirolamo, DO Charles De Mesa, DO, MPH INTRODUCTION Pain…
Enhancing Your Own Care
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen In this chapter, we consider 3 issues that can improve your conduct of mental health care: working as a team, referral, and personal awareness. The first…
Personality Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Personality is a complex concept—and an important one: it reflects human beings’ basic psychological infrastructure.1,2 This means that it plays a critical role in determining how…
Psychotic Disorders
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen We consider psychotic disorders to reside primarily in the domain of psychiatry. But primary care and other medical physicians almost always see these patients at some…
Other Disorders and Issues in Primary Care
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…
The Diagnostic Interview
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,…
Misuse of Prescription Substances and Other Substances
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….
Generalized Anxiety and Related Disorders
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…
