Conducting Psychiatric Consultations Consultation-Liaison (C-L) psychiatry focuses on the interface between mental and physical illness. Successful consults require an understanding of: the patient, the reason the referral was made, the consultee, and the C-L service itself. This text was written to provide readers with a practical, concise, and enjoyable introduction to conducting psychiatric consultations. This book is condensed from: Sigmundoscopy: Medical -Psychiatric Consult-Liaison, The Bases (ISBN 0-9680324-5-1). About the Author Dave Robinson is a psychiatrist practicing in London, Ontario, Canada. His particular interests are consultation-liaison psychiatry and both undergraduate and postgraduate education. He attended medical school at the University of Toronto, and then completed a residency in family practice before entering psychiatry. He is a (lowly) lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. About the Artist Brian Chapman was born in Sussex, England and moved to Canada in 1957. He was formerly a Creative Director at Mediacom. He continues to freelance and is versatile in a wide range of media. He devoted almost twenty years of his time and talents to create over one thousand illustrations for Rapid Psychler Press. Brian passed away in 2012 after a brief respiratory ailment. His extreme generosity and legendary sense of humour live on in the pages of this book. |