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For generations of practitioners, the <i>Massachusetts General Hospital Handbook of General Hospital Psychiatry</i> has been and is <b>the gold standard guide to consultation-liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine</b>. The fully updated 7th Edition, by Drs. Theodore A. Stern, Oliver Freudenreich, Felicia A. Smith, Gregory L. Fricchione, and Jerrold F. Rosenbaum, provides an authoritative, easy-to-understand review of the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of psychiatric problems experienced by adults and children with medical and surgical conditions.<br /><br />Covers the psychological impact of <b>chronic medical problems and life-threatening diseases, </b> somatic symptom disorders, organ donors and recipients, pain, substance abuse, and <b>polypharmacy, </b>including a thorough review of drug actions and interactions, metabolism, and elimination.<br /><br /><br />Features <b>DSM-5 updates throughout</b>, as well as <b>case studies in every chapter</b>.<br /><br />Contains p