Challenging Consultations

摘要

Psychosomatic medicine, or medical psychiatry—also known as consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry—specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and psychiatric manifestations of complex medical illness.1 CL psychiatrists treat a challenging and diverse patient population both in the general hospital setting and in the outpatient setting. They specialize in the care of patients with comorbid psychiatric and medical illnesses, as well as patients whose psychiatric illness is a direct consequence of a primary medical condition.