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Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.34.6.499

This month's column illustrates bow a liaison psychiatrist develops a treatment plan that draws heavily on the staffand resources of the medical units in which the patient is being treated. The guest expert, Dr. Samuel Perry, is associate professor of psychiatry at Cornell University Medical College, andassociate director of the consultation-liaison service and liaison psychiatrist in the burn unit at New York Hospital. He is also a collaborator (along with Dr. Frances and John F. Clarkin, Ph. D.) on a f ortbcoming book on treatment planning in psychiatry.

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