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This episode highlights consultation liason psychiatry. When patients are being treated for medical or surgical conditions either as inpatients in a hospital or on an outpatient basis, they may need help for an exacerbation of a preexisting psychiatric issue or support and treatment of anxiety, depression and other symptoms that may have arisen as a result of the stress of being sick or even as a symptom of an underlying medical problem. Psychiatrists practicing consultation liason psychiatry treat patients at his interface , helping with complex diagnostic questions and recommending appropr
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