Mental Health
- Patients with challenging behaviors: Communication strategies
Having a plan to deal with difficult personality types leads to better communication and outcomes—and less stress.
- Labels matter: Challenging conversations or challenging people?
Caring for patients is a complex, intricate, intimate privilege. To characterize it otherwise is to not fully understand it.
- Delirium in hospitalized patients: Risks and benefits of antipsychotics
No drug is approved for delirium, but antipsychotics can be used in certain situations.
- Postoperative delirium in a 64-year-old woman
Nine days after surgery, her mental status takes an abrupt turn for the worse. What is going on?
- Bedside manners: How to deal with delirium
Delirium is often overlooked. Clinical observation remains important.
- Serotonin syndrome: Preventing, recognizing, and treating it
Serotonin syndrome can be easily overlooked, misdiagnosed, or exacerbated. Early recognition is critical.
- Breaking the pain contract: A better controlled-substance agreement for patients on chronic opioid therapy
Common limitations of current pain treatment “contracts,” and strategies to improve them.
- LGBT care: There has been progress
A tectonic shift has taken place in how we perceive and interact with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
- Best practices in LGBT care: A guide for primary care physicians
Myths, disparities, and a step-by-step approach to the care of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients.
- Cocaine-induced ecchymotic rash
Levamisole-adulterated cocaine can induce an ANCA-associated vasculitic rash within hours or days.