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searching for medical causes of psychosis. It isn't up to medicine to find out whether my patient has psychosis secondary to lupus, syphilis, or thyroid issues, for instance.
I don't consider ordering a TSH or RPR complex diagnostic testing. Now if a psychiatrist performs and interprets an LP to look for a secondary cause of lupus, then that would count. I would even count it if a psych resident orders a specialized antibody panel to to look for a CNS auto-immune vasculitis. In real post-resident life, psychiatrists don't do this.
Please note that when I refer to complex diagnostic testing by endocrinology, I am referring to things like checking hormones multiple times in a day under various situations (salt loading, water deprivation, glucose load, etc) to make a precise diagnose/localize.