Preface; Dedication; 1. The consultation process Jeanne M. Lackamp; 2. Assessing capacity in the medically ill: I don't want to! Mary J. Fitz-Gerald; 3. The difficult patient encounter: understanding what just happened? Raheel A. Khan and Mary J. Fitz-Gerald; 4. Psychopharmacology in the medically ill Sanjeev Sockalingam, Adrienne Tan and Susan E. Abbey; 5. Suicide risk assessment James J. Amos; 6. Assessment and management of the violent patient James J. Amos; 7. Evaluation and management of delirium John Querques, Carlos Fernandez-Robles, Davin Quinn, Megan Moore Brennan and Gregory Fricchione; 8. Management of somatoform disorders Kathy Coffman; 9. Managing factitious disorder and malingering James J. Amos; 10. Agitation in patients with dementia Debra R. Kahn, Raheel A. Khan and James A. Bourgeois; 11. Depression and heart disease Jess G. Fiedorowicz; 12. Management of poststroke depression Robert G. Robinson, Sergio E. Starkstein and Romina Mizrahi; 13. Psychiatric aspects of Parkinson's disease Joanne A. Byars and Laura Marsh; 14. Managing depression in traumatic brain injury Oludamilola Salami and Vani Rao; 15. Managing psychiatric aspects of seizure disorders Alex Thompson; 16. Distress and depression in cancer care Janeta Tansey and Donna Greenberg; 17. Depression in the patient with hepatitis C Joseph A. Locala; 18. Psychiatric aspects of AIDS Mary Ann Cohen; 19. Managing depression and renal failure Thomas W. Heinrich; 20. Management of psychiatric syndromes due to endocrine and metabolic diseases James J. Amos and Jaspreet Chahal; 21. Management of alcohol withdrawal and other selected substance withdrawal issues Philip A. Bialer and Anthony C. Miller; 22. Managing depression in pregnancy Robin C. Kopelman; 23. Psychiatric aspects of organ transplantation Michael Marcangelo and Catherine Crone; 24. Preoperative psychiatric evaluation for bariatric surgery Kathy Coffman; 25. Psychiatric care at the end of life: hospice and palliative medicine Michelle Weckmann; 26. Demoralization in the medical setting Marcus Wellen and Thomas Wise; 27. Psychotherapy for the hospitalized medically ill patient Scott Temple and Scott Stuart; 28. Children's reaction and consequences of illness and hospitalization and transition of care from pediatric to adult settings Susan Turkel and Maryland Pao; Index.