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Liaison psychiatry has emerged in the past several years as a major subdivision, some would say a subspecialty, of psychiatry. Its rapid emergence from relative obscurity reflects changing trends in medicine and psychiatry, and in health care delivery. More specifically, it owes much to a 1974 decision of the Psychiatry Education Branch at NIMH to give high priority to the development of consultation-liaison services in the general hospitals.1 That decision was apparently based on two sets of premises:(1) Medicine is shifting its focus to primary care and primary care physicians identify and treat (or fail to treat) about three fifths of psychiatric disorders. Medical students and nonpsychiatric physicians should be prepared for that task, and liaison psychiatrists are the right persons to help with the preparation. (2) Psychiatry’s drift away from medicine needs to be arrested if the specialty is to be salvaged.1,2 Since liaison psychiatry represents the main viable bridge between medicine and psychiatry, it is logical to expand it.
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Lipowski, Z.J. (1985). Liaison Psychiatry, Liaison Nursing, and Behavioral Medicine. In: Psychosomatic Medicine and Liaison Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2509-3_24
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