The Geezer’s Dirty Dozen on Common Psychiatry Consult Issues
This is a quick Dirty Dozen on common issues in Consultation Psychiatry. It can hardly be comprehensive because the field is so broad. If I had to pick the problems I encounter most often though, these...
View ArticleNMS and Serotonin Syndrome: CPCP Review
We have a weekly case conference on our psychiatry consultation service in which we discuss relevant medical literature in connection with patients we’ve seen. It’s a continuous improvement activity...
View ArticleCPCP: Drugs for Delirium by Rock Star Residents and A Medical Student
We heard a great Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry (CPCP) presentation from rock star residents Thomas Salter, Paul Thisayakorn as well as medical student Rick Siel. Tom and Paul took the...
View ArticleDelirium Order Set! Now Will We Change?
Yesterday, one of our best resident physicians, Dr. Paul Thisayakorn, MD, dropped by our staff psychiatric consultation office just before our Clinical Problems in Consultation Psychiatry (CPCP) case...
View ArticleBeing Careful With Benzodiazepines
I frequently see patients in the hospital who receive benzodiazepines from their doctors in outpatient clinics, both psychiatric and primary care. Many of them are diverting their prescriptions,...
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