The psychiatrist tries with all available methods to create as accurate a picture as possible of the patient who comes to his office. The psychiatric examination begins with a thorough medical history - both from the patient himself and from his immediate environment. He deepens the information obtained from the history by performing additional examinations - imaging, laboratory tests, psychological tests and others. Laboratory tests are an extremely valuable diagnostic tool and allow us to step more confidently into the 'maze of psychiatric diagnoses'.
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