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Patients with bipolar disorder need a great deal of information about the illness. Without this education, adherence to your recommendations is uncertain; with it, outcomes will likely be better (and your job easier).
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Anxiety disorders are a frequent occurrence in pregnancy. While some worries and anxiety are experienced by more than 50% of pregnant women, a full-blown anxiety disorder involves risk to both mother and fetus and increases the risk of postpartumdepression.
All pregnant women should be screened for bipolar disorder, according to a recent article by Verinder Sharma, MB, BS, professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, and colleagues. This is because bipolar depression may be misdiagnosed as major depressive disorder in the postpartum period, resulting in delays in appropriate treatment.
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While regulatory controls on methadone clinics for opioid dependence resulted in treatment being physically and functionally isolated from conventional medical care, the delivery of an office-based treatment of buprenorphine and the buprenorphine/naloxone combination product over the last decade has facilitated the return of treatment to mainstream medicine both for psychiatry and primary care.
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Making Public Health Policy and Economics a Priority Bryan R. Fine, MD, MPH, May 21, 2012 Public health as an important part of an allopathic, clinical program may be intuitive to some, but implementing it is still a challenge.
Using Pinterest to Market Your Medical Practice Jenny Conviser, PsyD, May 18, 2012 Pinterest is quickly becoming the next big social media outlet, so here's an easy guide on how your practice can get online and connect with patients.
How to Close Your Medical Practice the Right Way Sue Jacques, May 16, 2012 Whether you've decided to retire, relocate, or retreat from practice, you can reduce the pain for your patients and staff by following these five guidelines.