Tales From the Clinic: The Art of Psychiatry

is assistant professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Director of Community Psychiatry Clinics at the Harris Health System, Houston, Texas.

is Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.

Articles

A patient, faced with a lung cancer diagnosis and the fear of death, goes through the stages of grief. How can you as clinicians lead them through?

“I’m Not Ready to Die”

is a psychiatry resident at the Baylor College of Medicine.

Dr Li is an associate professor and addiction-boarded faculty at Harris Health System in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine.

Treating patients who may be perceived as “unlikeable” can be difficult. 

To Treat or Not to Treat? The Conundrum of Likeability

Dr Sanchez is a PGY-4 general psychiatry resident in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. He plans to pursue a fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry after graduation.

A patient presents with multiple substance use disorders super-imposed on mood and anxiety disorders. Where does a clinician even begin?

I Had to Use

What can be done to strengthen the therapeutic alliance?

Tales From the Clinic: The Art of Psychiatry

“I’m Not Ready to Die”

To Treat or Not to Treat? The Conundrum of Likeability

I Had to Use

A Love Letter to the Patient-Physician Relationship