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Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry

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Very helpful reference that gives context to various medical conditions as seen in psychiatric patients. Often texts or other sources do not address the unique situation and this text does so clearly and effectively. Helpful flowcharts formulate material in a clear and useful form.

Manu is a notoriously unscientific "scientist". See his work on "functional somatic syndromes" in which he includes ME (aka CFS) which is a somatic disease which does not have "medically unexplained" symptoms. I wouldn't trust anything he's edited or written.

This is a wonderful book- the best of it's kind. It is well written and easy to use. It is a must for the psychiatric resident!!

As a psychiatric intern, this book helps me a great deal as I care for patients with comorbid psychiatric and medical conditions. Organized by signs and symptoms, the handbook makes it easier to quickly develop a differential diagnosis, work up the patient, and provide the appropriate treatment. In addition to the handbook's clear and concise text, its numerous flowcharts are particularly helpful.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who provides care to patients with psychiatric illnesses.

As a first year Psychiatry resident I have found this manual very helpful as a first source when managing patients that also have medical problems. The book consistantly addresses each medical problem in the context of a comorbid psychiatric condition, so that information that is usually glossed over or even excluded in most medical or online texts is easily available and accessible in a single, well organized, concise manual. When any of my patients have a medical issue, I can grab this book and in 5 minutes review psychiatric conditions and medications that may be relevent to the diagnosis and treatment of the problem as well as have an easy to follow algorithm to help with decisions such as sending to the patient to the ER vs following up as an outpatient. I highly recommend this book for other psychiatry residents or anyone who frequently sees patients with comorbid psychiatric conditions.

This book's aim is interesting because physical disorders in psychiatric settings is hard to manage for a psychiatrist trained mainly in a self-standing psychiatric hospital.

Readers can take a general view of that field, or physical disorders in psychiatric settings.

The contents is well-organized, easy to read style even for Japanese learners. I spent 6 months to finish raading it at free moments during my work. Average Japanese doctors may be able to finish reading it even for a shorter period of time.