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You are the attending child psychiatrist on the pediatric consultation-liaison service at the children’s hospital in an urban, cosmopolitan city. As part of your duties you routinely round with the hematology-oncology service to introduce yourself to the new patients and their families, and you follow up with established patients who may be hospitalized.
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Ghiasuddin, A. (2018). Complementary and Alternative Approaches to Improving Comfort and Access. In: Guerrero, A., Lee, P., Skokauskas, N. (eds) Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89488-1_21
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